Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts.
- Author / Editor
- Slipp, Nicole Elizabeth.
Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts.
- Published
- Ph.D. dissertation, Queens University, 2017. Fully accessible via https://queensu.scholaris.ca/items/2168a905-fe87-4bbd-a896-5492740912bf (accessed February 22, 2026).
- Physical Description
- v, 275 pp.
- Description
- Outlines "the history and theory of BDSM [bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism]" and explores "concepts of fantasy, performance, consent, and eroticized violence" in "Sir Gowther," "The Book of Margery Kempe," and WBPT "from the perspective of kinky reading, a methodology that draws on the traditions of feminist and queer theory and the new field of kink studies."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Wife of Bath and Her Tale