Indecent Exposure : : Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature / / Nicole Nolan Sidhu.
Men and women struggling for control of marriage and sexuality; narratives that focus on trickery, theft, and adultery; descriptions of sexual activities and body parts, the mention of which is prohibited in polite society: such are the elements that constitute what Nicole Nolan Sidhu calls a mediev...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 7 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on The Fabliaux
- Introduction
- Part I. Fourteenth - Century Pioneers
- Chapter 1. Comedy and Critique
- Chapter 2. Chaucer's Poetics of the Obscene
- Part II. Fifteenth - Century Heirs
- Chapter 3. The Henpecked Subject
- Chapter 4. "Ryth Wikked"
- Chapter 5. Women's Work, Companionate Marriage, and Mass Death in the Biblical Drama
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments