University of Virginia Press, 2000 - Literary Criticism - 240 pages. The title should be at least 4 characters long. A Queer Chivalry highlights the strange blending of sensual delight and strict self-denial in Hopkins's courtly verse, initiating a new trend in criticism that celebrates the poet's queer status as the Victorian troubadour-priest. We are currently reviewing your submission. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism in its broadest definition--the refusal of physical pleasure or comfort in the interests of moral or spiritual gain. The review must be at least 50 characters long. Not in United States? Ultimately, Pugh uncovers queer limits in the cavalier mythos, showing how facts and fictions contributed to the ideological formulation of the South. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honor and gentility run throughout regional narratives with little regard for the actions and, at times, the atrocities committed by such men. In Queer Chivalry, Tison Pugh exposes the inherent contradictions in these depictions of cavalier manhood, investigating the foundations of southern gallantry as a reincarnated and reauthorized version of medieval masculinity. A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Julia F. Saville is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Najděte si knihu v největším e-knihkupectví na světě a pusťte se do čtení na webu, v tabletu, telefonu nebo čtečce e-knih ještě dnes. Beginning with Twain's famous critique of "the Sir Walter disease" that pilloried the South, Pugh focuses on authors who questioned the code of chivalry by creating protagonists whose quests for personal knighthood prove quixotic. Buy Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Victorian Literature & Culture) Illustrated by Julia F. Saville (ISBN: 9780813919409) from Amazon's Book Store. There are currently no items in your Shopping Cart. In Queer Chivalry, Tison Pugh exposes the inherent contradictions in these depictions of cavalier manhood, investigating the foundations of southern gallantry as a reincarnated and reauthorized version of medieval masculinity. In conversation with novelist Aislinn Hunter. We'll publish them on our site once we've reviewed them. Through detailed readings of major works -- including Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Flannery O'Connor's short fiction, John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, Robert Penn Warren's A Place to Come To, Walker Percy's novels, and Gilchrist's The Annunciation -- Pugh demonstrates that the hypermasculinity of white-knight ideals only draws attention to the ambiguous gender of the literary southern male. Through detailed readings of major works -- including Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Flannery O'Connor's short fiction, John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, Robert Penn Warren's A Place to Come To, Walker Percy's novels, and Gilchrist's The Annunciation -- Pugh demonstrates that the hypermasculinity of white-knight ideals only draws attention to the ambiguous gender of the literary southern male. on October 11, 2020. See if you have enough points for this item. It also constitutes a map tracing the alternating practices of self-discipline and self-indulgence, self-expression and self-silencing performed by Hopkins's verse. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout. Go to our Russia store to continue. Choose your country's store to see books available for purchase. Be the first to ask a question about Queer Chivalry. A loyalty program that rewards you for your love of reading. Pugh argues that the idea of masculinity -- particularly as seen in works by prominent southern authors from Mark Twain to Ellen Gilchrist -- constitutes a cultural myth that queerly demarcates accepted norms of manliness, often by displaying the impossibility of its achievement. Pugh argues that the idea of masculinity -- particularly as seen in works by prominent southern authors from Mark Twain to Ellen Gilchrist -- constitutes a cultural myth that queerly demarcates accepted norms of manliness, often by displaying the impossibility of its achievement. Julia F. Saville. For the U.S. South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. You need a United States address to shop on our United States store. At Kobo, we try to ensure that published reviews do not contain rude or profane language, spoilers, or any of our reviewer's personal information. Others decry his monasticism as the regrettably oppressive regimen from which he was able to escape only occasionally through his sensuous, sometimes overtly homoerotic verse.

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