The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture

The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture
Author: C. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2007-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230604994

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This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Performed repeatedly by generations of merchants and craftsmen, these Biblical plays produced fantasies and anxieties of middle class, urban masculinity, many of which are familiar today.


The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: C. Fitzgerald
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-25 - Publisher: Springer

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This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousnes
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Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at.
On Farting
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: V. Allen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-24 - Publisher: Springer

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This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part t
Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature
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Pages: 390
Authors: R. Ladd
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-18 - Publisher: Springer

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This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology agains