Claustrophilia
The Erotics Of Enclosure In Medieval Literature
Part of the The New Middle Ages book series (TNMA)
About this book
Introduction
Through extended readings of English, French, and Italian writers of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth centuries, Claustrophilia shows that medieval enclosures actually make room for desires and communities that a poetics of pure openness would exclude.
Keywords
English English literature French Italy literature lyric medieval literature Middle Ages poetics
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604148
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, New York
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-53332-9
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-60414-8
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