Queer chivalry [electronic resource] : medievalism and the myth of white masculinity in Southern literature / Tison Pugh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Southern history, mythic white masculinity, and queering the medieval chivalric ideal -- Dialectical history, white Indians, and queer anxiety in Mark Twain's A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court -- Medieval masculinity, Southern chivalry, and redemptive homosexuality in Flannery O'Connor's fiction -- "It's prolly fulla dirty stories": queer masculinity and masturbatory allegory in John Kennedy Toole's A confederacy of dunces -- "I am the lost cause": queer history, the Southern phallus, and the quest for medieval timelessness in Robert Penn Warren's A place to come to -- "The Sir Walter disease" and queer quests for masculinity in Walker Percy's novels -- Conclusion: Ellen Gilchrist's the annunciation and the queer future of chivalric masculinities.

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