Obscene Pedagogies - Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain (Hardcover)

In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. Harris's own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Carissa M. Harris (Assistant Professor)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	306
ISBN-13:	978-1-5017-3040-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	1-5017-3040-1
Barcode:	9781501730405

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