TY - CHAP
T1 - Disorienting masculinity
T2 - movement, emotion and chivalric identity in Partonope of Blois
AU - Bonsall, Jane
PY - 2023/1/2
Y1 - 2023/1/2
N2 - Jane Bonsall considers how action and mobility are gendered in medieval romance by exploring the quality and impact of the hero’s movement in the fifteenth-century Middle English Partonope of Blois. Focusing on the emotional landscape of romance, Bonsall invokes queer theorist Sara Ahmed to examine the queer potential of Partonope’s emotional and physical journey through fairy spaces. Reading romance conventions of masculinity and madness in dialogue with theories of queer orientation and disability, this chapter explores the subversive potential of knightly emotionality, stasis and movement. She determines that the multivalent readings of Partonope’s movement through this text—as queered, as feminised, as representing a breadth of masculine potentialities in romance—reveals an underlying tension with gendered expectations of the genre.
AB - Jane Bonsall considers how action and mobility are gendered in medieval romance by exploring the quality and impact of the hero’s movement in the fifteenth-century Middle English Partonope of Blois. Focusing on the emotional landscape of romance, Bonsall invokes queer theorist Sara Ahmed to examine the queer potential of Partonope’s emotional and physical journey through fairy spaces. Reading romance conventions of masculinity and madness in dialogue with theories of queer orientation and disability, this chapter explores the subversive potential of knightly emotionality, stasis and movement. She determines that the multivalent readings of Partonope’s movement through this text—as queered, as feminised, as representing a breadth of masculine potentialities in romance—reveals an underlying tension with gendered expectations of the genre.
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12647-5
UR - https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?isn=9783031126468&rn=1
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-12647-5_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-12647-5_8
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783031126468
SN - 9783031126499
T3 - New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))
SP - 139
EP - 164
BT - Medieval mobilities
A2 - Price, Basil Arnould
A2 - Bonsall, Jane
A2 - null, Meagan Khoury
PB - Palgrave
CY - Cham
ER -