Disorienting masculinity: movement, emotion and chivalric identity in Partonope of Blois

Jane Bonsall

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Disorienting masculinity: movement, emotion and chivalric identity in Partonope of Blois

Jane Bonsall

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Medieval mobilities
Subtitle of host publication	gendered bodies, spaces, and movements
Editors	Basil Arnould Price, Jane Bonsall, Meagan Khoury
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave
Chapter	8
Pages	139-164
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031126475
ISBN (Print)	9783031126468, 9783031126499
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12647-5_8
Publication status	Published - 2 Jan 2023

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Name	New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))
ISSN (Print)	2945-5936
ISSN (Electronic)	2945-5944

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