Indecent exposure : gender, politics, and obscene comedy in Middle English literature / Nicole Nolan Sidhu.
| Author/creator | Sidhu, Nicole Nolan author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016] |
| Copyright Date | ©2016 |
| Description | viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Gender, politics, and obscene comedy in Middle English literature |
| Series | Middle Ages series Middle Ages series. ^A511997 |
| Contents | Note on the Fabliaux -- Introduction. Obscenity in medieval culture and literature -- part I. Fourteen-century pioneers -- 1. Comedy and critique : obscenity and Langland's reproof of established powers in Piers Plowman -- 2. Chaucer's poetics of the obscene : classical narrative and fabliau politics in fragment one of the Canterbury tales and The legend of good women -- Part II. Fifteenth-century heirs -- 3. The henpecked subject : misogyny, poetry, and masculine community in the writing of John Lydgate -- 4. "Ryth Wikked" : Christian ethics and the unruly holy woman in the Book of Margery Kempe -- 5. Women's work, companionate marriage, and mass death in the biblical drama -- Conclusion. Lessons of the medieval obscene. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index. |
| ISBN | 081224804X |
| ISBN | 9780812248043 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR149 .S5 S53 2016 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |