Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle

Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales, Pearl, Amis and Amiloun , and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected, no matter how appealing such queerness might remain at the story's end. Masculinity itself is thus revealed to be a queer performance, one which heroic protagonists of medieval narratives embody while nonetheless highlighting its constricting limitations.

Tison Pugh is Associate Professor, Department of English and Distinguished Researcher, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Central Florida. He is the author of Queering Medieval Genres and the co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems and Race, Class, and Gender in “Medieval” Cinema.

Introduction: Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature	p. 1
Abandoning Desires, Desiring Readers, and the Divinely Queer Triangle of Pearl	p. 21
Queering Harry Bailly: Gendered Carnival, Social Ideologies, and Masculinity under Duress in the Canterbury Tales	p. 49
"He nedes moot unto the pley assente": Queer Fidelities and Contractual Hermaphroditism in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale	p. 75
From Boys to Men to Hermaphrodites to Eunuchs: Queer Formations of Romance Masculinity and the Hagiographic Death Drive in Amis and Amiloun	p. 101
Queer Castration, Patriarchal Privilege, and the Comic Phallus in Eger and Grime	p. 123
Conclusion: Compulsory Queerness and the Pleasures of Medievalism	p. 145
Notes	p. 151
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 215
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Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature

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