This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected.

TISON PUGH is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English, as well as a Distinguished Researcher in the College of Arts and Humanities, at the University of Central Florida, USA.

Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature Abandoning Desires, Desiring Readers, and the Divinely Queer Triangle of Pearl Queering Harry Bailey: Gendered Carnival, Social Ideologies, and Masculinity under Duress in the Canterbury Tales 'He Nedes Moot unto the Pley Assente': Queer Fidelities and Contractual Hermaphroditism in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale From Boys to Men to Hermaphrodites to Eunuchs: Queer Formations of Romance Masculinity and the Hagiographic Death Drive in Amis and Amiloun Queer Castration, Patriarchal Privilege, and the Comic Phallus in Eger and Crime Compulsory Queerness and the Pleasures of Medievalism