Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain.
- Author / Editor
- Harris, Carissa M.
Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain.
- Published
- Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 285 pp.
- Description
- Examines late medieval British literary texts (lyrics, pastourelles, flytings, "alewife poems," "schoolroom texts," etc.) for their use of obscene language and imagery to shape and convey attitudes toward gender and sexuality, both positive and negative. Chapter 1, ''Felawe Masculinity': Teaching Rape Culture in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'," addresses how words such as "swyve," "wenche," and "felawe" help to create, in Mil, RvT, and CkT, a "gendered pedagogical community" that teaches "men that sexual aggression is both necessary and laudatory." Elsewhere in CT the Host, Merchant, Shipman, and Mancile are complicit in this community, partially resisted in RvT and in the censoring of RvT in British Library, Additional MS 35286.
- Alternative Title
- "Felawe Masculinity": Teaching Rape Culture in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Language and Word Studies
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale
Cook and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale
Manciple and His Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies