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On the edge: Chaucer and Gower’s queer glosses
Roberta Magnani 
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Diane Watt
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Diane Watt
postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 269 - 288
Swansea University Author:
Roberta Magnani
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DOI (Published version): 10.1057/s41280-018-0096-0
Abstract
In this article Diane Watt and I focus on a number of manuscript glosses accompanying the tale of Constance in Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale and in Gower's Tale of Constance in Confessio Amantis. By applying queer theory to the paratextual apparatus of these manuscripts, we shed new...
| Published in: | postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies |
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| ISSN: | 2040-5960 2040-5979 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2018
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa38998 |
| Abstract: |
In this article Diane Watt and I focus on a number of manuscript glosses accompanying the tale of Constance in Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale and in Gower's Tale of Constance in Confessio Amantis. By applying queer theory to the paratextual apparatus of these manuscripts, we shed new light on the anxieties about authority and authorship shared by Chaucer and Gower (and their circles of collaborators). We also reevaluate the role of error and manuscripts variants, and argue for the queer pleasure provided by misprision and misinterpretation. This helps us to move away from patriarchal constructs on canon formation and manuscript transmission. |
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| Keywords: |
medieval literature; gender thoery; queer thoery; manuscript studies; book history |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Issue: |
3 |
| Start Page: |
269 |
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288 |