Covert Operations

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In Covert Operations, Karma Lochrie brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open.

Isolating five broad areas - confession, women's gossip, science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse - Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out.

She reads texts as central to Middle English studies as the Parson's Tale, the Miller's Tale, the Secretum Secretorum, John Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as well as a broad range of less familiar works, such as a gynecological treatise, and a little-known fifteenth-century parody in which gossip and confession become one.

As she does so she reveals a great deal about the medieval past - and perhaps just as much about the early development of the concealments that shape the present day.

• Women
• History and criticism
• Women and literature
• Law, Medieval, in literature
• Sodomy in literature
• English literature
• Marriage in literature
• Marriage customs and rites, Medieval
• Gossip in literature
• Secrecy in literature

Baskılar ve ISBN

2012

University of Pennsylvania Press · İngilizce
ISBN 9781283897112

2012

University of Pennsylvania Press · İngilizce · 304 sayfa
ISBN 9780812207194

December 1998

University of Pennsylvania Press · İngilizce · 292 sayfa
ISBN 9780812234732

1999

University of Pennsylvania Press · İngilizce · 292 sayfa
ISBN 0812234731