'[W]ordy vnthur wede': Clothing, Nakedness and the Erotic in Some Romances of Medieval Britain
- Author / Editor
- Hopkins, Amanda.
'[W]ordy vnthur wede': Clothing, Nakedness and the Erotic in Some Romances of Medieval Britain
- Published
- Amanda Hopkins and Cory James Rushton, eds. The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.; and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007), pp. 53-70.
- Description
- Hopkins explores depictions of sexual frisson, or arousal, in a variety of Middle English romances, focusing on the presentation of clothing, nudity, and partial nudity. She surveys examples in which female ugliness is represented almost as often as beauty, works in which partial beauty "can be more erotic than complete nakedness," and depictions of male and female erotic potential. In TC, Chaucer focuses on male pleasure. He explores female pleasure in WBPT.
- Alternative Title
- The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.