Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain

AMANDA HOPKINS was teaching in English and French at the University of Warwick ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. CORYJAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. CORYJAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. MEGAN G. LEITCH is the Professor and Chair of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

• Introduction: A Light Thrown upon Darkness: Writing about Medieval British Sexuality - Robert RouseIntroduction: A Light Thrown upon Darkness: Writing about Medieval British Sexuality - Cory RushtonOpen Manslaughter and Bold Bawdry: Male Sexuality as a Cause of Disruption in Malory's Morte Darthur - Kristina HildebrandErotic (Subject) Positions in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale - Amy S. KaufmanEnter the Bedroom: Managing Space for the Erotic in Middle English Romance - Megan G. Leitch'Naked as a nedyll': The Eroticism of Malory's Elaine - Yvette Kisor'How love and I togedre met': Gower, Amans and the Lessons of Venus in the Confessio Amantis - Samantha J. Rayner'Bogeysliche as a boye': Performing Sexuality in William of Palerne - Hannah PriestFairy Lovers: Sexuality, Order and Narrative in Medieval Romance - Aisling ByrneText as Stone: Desire, Sex and the Figurative Hermaphrodite in the Ordinal and Compound of Alchemy - Cynthea MassonAnimality, Sexuality and the Abject in Three of Dunbar's Satirical Poems - Anna CaugheyThe Awful Passion of Pandarus - Cory RushtonInvisible Woman: Rape as a Chivalric Necessity in Medieval Romance - Amy N. Vines

This collection successfully demonstrates the complexity of medieval sexual culture and would be useful for any with an interest in gender, sexuality, and Middle English romance.