Sartorial strategies
Subtitle: outfitting aristocrats and fashioning conduct in late medieval literature
By: Nicole D. Smith
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780268041373
Subjects: Clothing and dress in literature; French literature; English literature; Social history; History and criticism; Medieval Literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: 'out of old clothes, something new'; title: Marie de France: Guigemar and the erotics of tight dress; title: Heldris de Cornuälle: telegraphing morality through transvestism; title: The Gawain-poet: fashioning penance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; title: Geoffrey Chaucer: the parson's pleasure.