1st Edition
Erotic Medievalisms Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized People
By Elan Justice Pavlinich
Copyright 2023
186 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgments
- Foreplay: Eroticizing the Middle Ages
- Grendel’s Cumming!: (Homoerotic) Horror in García and Rubín’s Beowulf
- Ass-ention of the Black Power Bottom in Lil Nas X’s "Montero"
- The Cunning Linguist of Agbabi’s "The Kiss"
- BDSMedievalisms: Past, Power, Pain/Pleasure
- Walk of Shame: The Conservative Assault on Sexual Liberties
Index
Biography
Elan Justice Pavlinich is a Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA, where he teaches medieval and early modern literatures and medievalisms. His publications include cognitive approaches to the Old English Boethius and feminist approaches to Disney’s medievalisms.
