Indecent Exposure: Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Sidhu, Nicole Nolan.
Indecent Exposure: Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature.
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- Physical Description
- vii, 303 pp; illus.
- Description
- Argues in Chapter 2, "Chaucer's Poetics of the Obscene: Classical Narrative and Fabliau Politics in Fragment One of the "Canterbury Tales" and the "Legend of Good Women" (pp. 76-110), that RvT taps the subversive potential of the fabliau to critique masculine rivalry and sexual coercion. RvT challenges both KnT and MilT, particularly their entrenchment of the status quo by echoing the classical legend of Ariadne, understood in part through LGW.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Poetics of the Obscene: Classical Narrative and Fabliau Politics in Fragment One of the "Canterbury Tales" and the "Legend of Good Women."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale
Knight and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Legend of Good Women