The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain
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The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

  1. 194 pages
  2. English
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The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

About this book

This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the interplay between religion and the erotic, and the hedonistic horrors of the cannibalistic Giant of Mont St Michel. Contributors: ALEX DAVIS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, JANE BLISS, SUE NIEBRZYDOWSKI, KRISTINA HILDEBRAND, ANTHONY BALE, CORY JAMES RUSHTON, CORINNE SAUNDERS, AMANDA HOPKINS, ROBERT ROUSE, MARGARET ROBSON, THOMAS H. CROFTS III, MICHAEL CICHON.
AMANDA HOPKINS teaches in the department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and the department of French at the University of Warwick; CORY RUSHTON is in the Department of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Table of contents

  1. Frontcover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. List of Contributors
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. Introduction: The Revel, the Melodye and the Bisynesse of Solas
  7. ‘So wel koude he me glose’: The Wife of Bath and the Eroticism of Touch
  8. The Lady’s Man: Gawain as Lover in Middle English Literature
  9. Erotic Magic: The Enchantress in Middle English Romance
  10. ‘wordy vnthur wede’: Clothing, Nakedness and the Erotic in some Romances of Medieval Britain
  11. ‘Some Like it Hot’: The Medieval Eroticism of Heat
  12. How’s Your Father? Sex and the Adolescent Girl in Sir DegarrĂ©
  13. The Female ‘Jewish’ Libido in Medieval Culture
  14. Eros and Error: Gross Sexual Transgression in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi
  15. Perverse and Contrary Deeds: The Giant of Mont Saint Michel and the Alliterative Morte Arthure
  16. Her Desire and His: Letters between Fifteenth-century Lovers
  17. Sex in the Sight of God: Theology and the Erotic in Peter of Blois’ ‘Grates ago veneri’
  18. A Fine and Private Place
  19. Erotic Historiography: Writing the Self and History in Twelfth-century Romance and the Renaissance
  20. Index