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Queer chivalry : medievalism and the myth of white masculinity in Southern literature

Title
Queer chivalry : medievalism and the myth of white masculinity in Southern literature / Tison Pugh.
Author
Pugh, Tison
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]

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Description
ix, 224 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Southern literary studies
Uniform Title
Southern literary studies.
Subject
  • American literature > Southern States > History and criticism
  • Homosexuality in literature
  • Middle Ages in literature
  • Chivalry in literature
  • Masculinity in literature
  • Southern States > In literature
  • Southern States > Intellectual life
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references( pages 203-217) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Southern history, mythic white masculinity, and queering the medieval chivalric ideal -- Dialectical history, white Indians, and queer anxiety in Mark Twain's A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court -- Medieval masculinity, Southern chivalry, and redemptive homosexuality in Flannery O'Connor's fiction -- "It's prolly fulla dirty stories": queer masculinity and masturbatory allegory in John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces -- "I am the lost cause": queer history, the Southern phallus, and the quest for medieval timelessness in Robert Penn Warren's A place to come to -- "The Sir Walter disease" and queer quests for masculinity in Walker Percy's novels -- Conclusion: Ellen Gilchrist's the annunciation and the queer future of chivalric masculinities.
Call Number
JFD 14-876
ISBN
  • 9780807151846 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 080715184X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780807151853 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780807151860 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780807151877 (mobi) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2012048442
OCLC
826456667
Author
Pugh, Tison.
Title
Queer chivalry : medievalism and the myth of white masculinity in Southern literature / Tison Pugh.
Publisher
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Southern literary studies
Southern literary studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references( pages 203-217) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 14-876
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