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Sartorial strategies : outfitting aristocrats and fashioning conduct in late medieval literature
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Sartorial strategies : outfitting aristocrats and fashioning conduct in late medieval literature / Nicole D. Smith.
ISBN
9780268041373 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0268041377 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xiii, 281 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 11, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: 'out of old clothes, something new'
Marie de France: Guigemar and the erotics of tight dress
Heldris de Cornuälle: telegraphing morality through transvestism
The Gawain-poet: fashioning penance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Geoffrey Chaucer: the parson's pleasure.
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