The Queer Fantasies of Normative Masculinity in Middle English Popular Romance

This thesis examines how the authors, Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Chestre, manipulate the construct of late fourteenth-century normative masculinity by parodying the aristocratic ideology that hegemonically prescribed the proper performance of masculine normativity. Both authors structure their resp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arno, Cathryn Irene
Other Authors: Ashby Kinch
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: The University of Montana 2014
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Online Access:http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-01162014-115911/