Nicole Nolan SidhuIndecent Exposure
Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature
Note on the Fabliaux
Introduction. Obscenity in Medieval Culture and Literature
PART I. FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PIONEERS
Chapter 1. Comedy and Critique: Obscenity and Langland's Reproof of
Established Powers in Piers Plowman
Chapter 2. Chaucer's Poetics of the Obscene: Classical Narrative and
Fabliau Politics in Fragment One of the Canterbury Tales and The Legend of
Good Women
PART II. FIFTEENTH-CENTURY HEIRS
Chapter 3. The Henpecked Subject: Misogyny, Poetry, and Masculine Community
in the Writing of John Lydgate
Chapter 4. "Ryth Wikked": Christian Ethics and the Unruly Holy Woman in the
Book of Margery Kempe
Chapter 5. Women's Work, Companionate Marriage, and Mass Death in the
Biblical Drama
Conclusion. Lessons of the Medieval Obscene
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
