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Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00This book 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 and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected. more...
Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 133.00Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children?s Literature examines distinguished classics of children?s literature both old and new?including L. Frank Baum?s Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder?s Little House series, J. K. Rowling?s Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket?s A Series of Unfortunate Events , and Stephenie Meyer?s Twilight... more...
The Disney Middle Ages
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This collection examines the intersection between the products of the Disney Corporation and popular culture's fascination with the Middle Ages. The contributors explores Disney's accounts of the Middle Ages and their political and cultural ramifications, analyzing how these re-creations of a fairy-tale past function in modern society. more...
Queer Chivalry
LSU Press 2013; US$ 42.50For the U.S. South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honor and gentility run throughout regional narratives with little regard for the actions (and, at times, the atrocities) committed by such men. In Queer Chivalry, Tison Pugh exposes the inherent contradictions... more...
Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00This book aims to help scholars and aficionados of medieval film think about how the re-creation of an often mythical past performs important cultural work for modern directors and viewers. more...
Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 90.00New studies of the problem of medieval masculinity, and Chaucer's treatment of it. more...
Medievalisms
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 31.95From King Arthur and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval culture continues to surround us and has retained a strong influence on literature and culture throughout the ages. This fascinating and illuminating guide is written by two of the leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature, and explores:... more...
Larger Than Life
Rutgers University Press 2010; US$ 24.95The constellation of Hollywood stars burned brightly in the 1950s, even as the industry fell on hard economic times. Major artists of the 1940s continued to exert a magical appeal but the younger generation of moviegoers was soon enthralled by an emerging cast, led by James Dean and Marlon Brando. They, among others, ushered in a provocative acting... more...
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