Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance: Negotiating Consent, Gender and Desire.
- Author / Editor
- Piercy, Hannah.
Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance: Negotiating Consent, Gender and Desire.
- Published
- Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2023.
- Physical Description
- xi, 275 pp.
- Series
- Studies in Medieval Romance.
- Description
- Anatomizes the motif of resistance to love "across the chronology and variety of medieval English romance, from twelfth-century Anglo-Norman lais to fifteenth-century prose works," exploring "ways in which it reinforces or subverts contemporary cultural constructions of consent, gender, and desire," with attention to issues of race, class, and religious faith. Includes discussion of TC, FranT, MLT, and WBT, with comments on KnT and MerT. Narrows and focuses the author’s 2021 Ph.D. thesis (Durham University), "Unwillingness to Love in Medieval English Romance: Consent, Coercion, and the Conventions of the Genre."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale