Writing on skin in the age of Chaucer / edited by Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2018]
Description
vi, 273 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    • Buchreihe der Anglia ; 60. Bd. [More in this series]
    • Buchreihe der ANGLIA = ANGLIA book series ; volume 60
    Contents
    • Introduction : writing on skin in the age of Chaucer / Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp
    • Part I. Reading diseased skin. Doctrinal dermatologies / Sealy Gilles
    • The "scabbe of synne:" reading leprous skin in late medieval culture / Michael Leahy
    • Legible leprosy : skin disease in the Testament of Cresseid, Chaucer's summoner, and Amis and Amiloun / Sharon E. Rhodes
    • Part II. Textual skins. Chaucer's ethical palimpsest : dermal reflexivity in the general prologue / Catherine S. Cox
    • The cook's "mormal:" reading disease, doubt, and deviance on the body of Chaucer's cook / Erin E. Sweany
    • Blushing, paling, turning green : hue and its metapoetic function in Troilus and Criseyde / Nicole Nyffenegger
    • Part III. Writing dermal identities. Like a second skin : appropriation and (mis)interpretation of identities in Sir Gawain and the green knight and Willam of Palerne / Pax Gutierrez-Neal
    • Queer skin in the "Wife of Bath's prologue" and its manuscript glosses / Roberta Magnani
    • Reconstructing the pardoner : transgender skin operations in Fragment VI / M. W. Bychowski
    • Afterword : skin matters / Elizabeth Robertson.
    ISBN
    • 9783110575729 (hardcover)
    • 3110575728 (hardcover)
    OCLC
    1011115814
    RCP
    C - S
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