Erotic in Literature Medieval Brit., 1843841193, £45.00/$90.00, 194 2007

The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain
Edited by Amanda Hopkins
Edited by Cory James Rushton

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, the contributors 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.

DETAILS
200 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6 cm
13 digit ISBN: 9781843841197
Binding: Hardback
First published: 19/Apr/2007
Price: 90.00 USD / 45.00 GBP
Imprint: D. S. Brewer
Subject: Medieval Literature

BIC class: CSBB

STATUS: Available
Details updated on 18/11/2008

Contents

		Foreword Tony Grand
		Introduction
1		`So wel koude he me glose': The Wife of Bath and the Eroticism of Touch Sue Niebrzydowski
2		The Lady's Man: Gawain as a Lover in Middle English Literature
3		Erotic Magic: The Enchantress in Middle English Romance Corinne Saunders
4		`wordy vnthur wede': Clothing, Nakedness and the Erotic in some Romances ofMedieval Britain Amanda Hopkins
5		`Some Like it Hot': The Medieval Eroticism of Heat Robert Rouse
6		How's Your Father? Sex and the Adolescent Girl in Sir Degarré Margaret Robson
7		The Female `Jewish' Libido in Medieval Culture Anthony Bale
8		Eros and Error: Gross Sexual Transgression in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi Michael Cichon
9		Perverse and Contrary Deeds: The Giant of Mont Saint Michel and the Alliterative Morte Arthure Thomas Howard Crofts
10		Her Desire and His: Letters between Fifteenth-century Lovers Kristina Hildebrand
11		Sex in the Sight of God: Theology and the Erotic in Peter of Blois' `Grates Ago Veneri' Simon Meecham-Jones
12		A Fine and Private Place
13		Erotic Historiography: Writing the Self and History in Twelfth-century Romance and the Renaissance Alexander Davis

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