Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature

by Cary Howie

Book Overview

Through extended readings of English, French, and Italian writers of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth centuries, Claustrophilia shows that medieval enclosures actually make room for desires and communities that a poetics of pure openness would exclude.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349533327
• ISBN13: 9781349533329
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"