Writing on skin in the age of Chaucer / edited by Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nyffenegger, Nicole, editor.

Rupp, Katrin, editor.

Series:

Buchreihe der Anglia ; 60. Bd.

Buchreihe der ANGLIA = ANGLIA book series, 0340-5435 ; volume 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Human body in literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 273 pages : color illustration ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction : writing on skin in the age of Chaucer / Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp

Part I. Reading diseased skin. Doctrinal dermatologies / Sealy Gilles

The "scabbe of synne:" reading leprous skin in late medieval culture / Michael Leahy

Legible leprosy : skin disease in the Testament of Cresseid, Chaucer's summoner, and Amis and Amiloun / Sharon E. Rhodes

Part II. Textual skins. Chaucer's ethical palimpsest : dermal reflexivity in the general prologue / Catherine S. Cox

The cook's "mormal": reading disease, doubt, and deviance on the body of Chaucer's cook / Erin E. Sweany

Blushing, paling, turning green : hue and its metapoetic function in Troilus and Criseyde / Nicole Nyffenegger

Part III. Writing dermal identities. Like a second skin : appropriation and (mis)interpretation of identities in Sir Gawain and the green knight and Willam of Palerne / Pax Gutierrez-Neal

Queer skin in the "Wife of Bath's prologue" and its manuscript glosses / Roberta Magnani

Reconstructing the pardoner : transgender skin operations in Fragment VI / M. W. Bychowski

Afterword : skin matters / Elizabeth Robertson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110575729

3110575728

OCLC:

1011115814