Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Pugh, Tison.

Title
Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages

Published
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2014.

Physical Description
ix, 242 pp.

Description
Investigates the collision between eroticisms and anti-eroticisms in Chaucer's works in which the queer appears. When these two concepts circulate in Chaucer's stories, the characters must confront both their identity-formation and their becoming-queer within their respective genre and normative expectations. Chaucer's characters find their erotic desires unsatisfied, which leads to a fuller sense of queer-selfhood and humanness.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism