Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature

1. Introduction: Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature
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2. Abandoning Desires, Desiring Readers, and the Divinely Queer Triangle of Pearl

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3. Queering Harry Bailly: Gendered Carnival, Social Ideologies, and Masculinity Under Duress in the Canterbury Tales

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4. “He Nedes Moot Unto the Pley Assente”: Queer Fidelities and Contractual Hermaphroditism in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale

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5. From Boys to Men to Hermaphrodites to Eunuchs: Queer Formations of Romance Masculinity and the Hagiographic Death Drive in Amis and Amiloun

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6. Queer Castration, Patriarchal Privilege, and the Comic Phallus in Eger and Grime

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7. Conclusion: Compulsory Queerness And The Pleasures Of Medievalism
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Avainsanat: History, History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Literature, Literature, general, Gender Studies, Fiction, European History