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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2005 Ashgate hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. Chapter 1: Introduction (Susannah Mary Chewning) PART I: SECULAR LITERATURE AND DRAMA Chapter 2: Religion, Sexuality, and Representation in the York Joseph's Troubles Pageant (Michael W. George) Chapter 3: The Gentrification of Eve: Sexuality, Speech, and Self-regulation in Noble Conduct Literature (Mark Addison Amos) Chapter 4: Queer Copulation and the Pursuit of Divine Conjunction in Two Middle English Alchemical Poems (Cynthea Masson) PART II: ROMANCE AND NARRATIVE Chapter 5: Via erotica / via mystica: A Tour de force in the Merchant's Tale (M.C. Bodden) Chapter 6: "My Lemman Swete": Gender and Passion in Pearl (Catherine S. Cox) PART III: SAINTS AND RELIGIOUS WOMEN Chapter 7: Spectators of Martyrdom: Corporeality and Sexuality in the Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Margarete (Julie E. Fromer) Chapter 8: 'The Woman Who Shares the King's Bed': The Innocent Eroticism of Gertrud the Great of Helfta (Alexandra Barratt) Chapter 9: Virgin, Mother, Whore: The Sexual Spirituality of Margery Kempe (Liz Herbert McAvoy) PART IV: VISIONARIES AND MYSTICS Chapter 10: Corpus Mysticum: Text as Body/Body as Text (David A. Salomon) Chapter 11: Cross-Dressing Souls: Same-Sex Desire and the Mystic Tradition in A Talkyng of the Loue of God (Michelle M. Sauer) Chapter 12: "Mi bodi henge / with thi bodi": The Paradox of Sensuality in The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd (Susannah Mary Chewning). …

Hardback. Condition: New. New perspectives on one of the most important medieval poets.The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular topics addressed include Gower's revisions to the Tale ofRosiphilee; theological and philosophical positions within Gower's work; the violence of manuscript images of Confessio Amantis; and the views of a fellow poet on Gower - Edward Thomas.…

Hardback. Condition: New. New perspectives on one of the most important medieval poets.The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular topics addressed include Gower's revisions to the Tale ofRosiphilee; theological and philosophical positions within Gower's work; the violence of manuscript images of Confessio Amantis; and the views of a fellow poet on Gower - Edward Thomas.…