Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized People (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture)

✍ Scribed by Elan Justice Pavlinich

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 186
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Erotic Medievalisms is about the liberatory potential of sexualities, particularly as they relate to medieval histories and modern pleasures. Each of the texts analyzed within subvert norms rooted in medieval cultures or assumptions about the "real" Middle Ages, constructing queer histories that blur the lines between fantasy and authenticity. These medievalisms extend eroticisms and erogenous zones beyond normative limits of pleasure. Moreover, situating these diverse iterations of desire within the medieval past emends narrowly-constructed histories that limit the erotic fantasies and experiences of marginalized people.

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreplay: Eroticizing the Middle Ages
Chapter 1 Grendel’s Cumming!: (Homoerotic) Horror in García and Rubín’s Beowulf
Chapter 2 Ass-ention of the Black Power Bottom in Lil Nas X’s “Montero”
Chapter 3 The Cunning Linguist of Agbabi’s “The Kiss”
Chapter 4 BDSMedievalisms: Past, Power, Pain/Pleasure
Walk of Shame: The Conservative Assault on Sexual Liberties
Index