Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature

by Tison Pugh

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For the U.S. South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:080715184X

ISBN13:9780807151846

Release Date:December 2013

Publisher:LSU Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"

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