Queer chivalry medievalism and the myth of white masculinity in Southern literature
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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University Press
2013
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| Schriftenreihe: | Southern literary studies
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American literature / Southern States / History and criticism
> Homosexuality in literature
> Middle Ages in literature
> Chivalry in literature
> Masculinity in literature
> Literatur
> Männlichkeit
> Homosexualität
> Mittelalter
> Southern States / In literature
> Southern States / Intellectual life
> USA
> Südstaaten
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 224 Seiten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780807151846 978-0-8071-5184-6 |