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Author:

Pugh, Tison.

Title:

Queer chivalry : medievalism and the myth of white masculinity in Southern literature / Tison Pugh.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

ix, 224 pages ; 23 cm.

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.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

080715184X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807151846 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)826456667

LCCN:

2012048442

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)