Getting medieval : sexualities and communities, pre- and postmodern / Carolyn Dinshaw.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Dinshaw, Carolyn.

Series:

• e-Duke books scholarly collection.
• Series Q.
• Series Q

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Sex--History.
• Homosexuality--History.
• Gay community--History.
• Sex in literature.
• Homosexuality in literature.
• Literature, Medieval.
• Civilization, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How medieval texts represent and reproduce normative heterosexual identities.

Contents:

• Introduction Touching on the Past
• Chapter One. It Takes One to Know One: Lollards, Sodomites, and Their Accusers
• Chapter Two. Good Vibrations: John/Eleanor, Dame Alys, the Pardoner, and Foucault
• Chapter Three. Margery Kempe Answers Back
• Coda Getting Medieval: Pulp Fiction, Foucault, and the Use of the Past.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-336) and index.

ISBN:

• 9786613062574
• 9781283062572
• 1283062577
• 9780822382188
• 0822382180

OCLC:

213455273