| Portion of title |
Gender, politics, and obscene comedy in Middle English literature |
| Series |
Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series. ^A511997
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| Contents |
Note on the Fabliaux -- Introduction. Obscenity in medieval culture and literature -- part I. Fourteen-century pioneers -- 1. Comedy and critique : obscenity and Langland's reproof of established powers in Piers Plowman -- 2. Chaucer's poetics of the obscene : classical narrative and fabliau politics in fragment one of the Canterbury tales and The legend of good women -- Part II. Fifteenth-century heirs -- 3. The henpecked subject : misogyny, poetry, and masculine community in the writing of John Lydgate -- 4. "Ryth Wikked" : Christian ethics and the unruly holy woman in the Book of Margery Kempe -- 5. Women's work, companionate marriage, and mass death in the biblical drama -- Conclusion. Lessons of the medieval obscene. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index. |
| ISBN | 081224804X |
| ISBN | 9780812248043 |
