Erotic (Subject) Positions in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale

Author / Editor
Kaufman, Amy S.

Title
Erotic (Subject) Positions in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale

Published
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds. Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 27-37.

Description
Discusses scholarly interpretations of May and Damyan's sexual encounter in MerT, comparing the ideas that it could be categorized as rape/"rough love," an erotic tryst, or an act of female empowerment.

Alternative Title
Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale