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Indecent exposure : gender, politics, and obscene comedy in Middle English literature
- Title
- Indecent exposure : gender, politics, and obscene comedy in Middle English literature / Nicole Nolan Sidhu.
- Author
- Sidhu, Nicole Nolan
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- viii, 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Middle Ages series
- Uniform Title
- Middle Ages series.
- Alternative Title
- Gender, politics, and obscene comedy in Middle English literature
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-6941
- ISBN
- 081224804X
- 9780812248043
- OCLC
- 927401242
- Author
- Sidhu, Nicole Nolan, author.
- Title
- Indecent exposure : gender, politics, and obscene comedy in Middle English literature / Nicole Nolan Sidhu.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Middle Ages seriesMiddle Ages series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1100-1500
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-6941