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"""Courtly & Queer ultimately demonstrates what queer scholarship still has to gain from a deconstructive approach ... The book's understanding of queerness is valuable not only for deconstructing the libidinal investments of courtly texts, but also for destabilizing the generic categories and (often teleological) historical narratives into which such texts are inserted. This is smart scholarship that repays careful reading and that gives literary historians, as well as queer medievalists, important food for thought."" --Emma Campbell, H-France ""The title, though accurate in a comprehensive sense, does not really capture the excitement that this book conveys or the full complexity of its arguments ... Samuelson rubs text against theory so convincingly that their interaction seems natural, essential, almost eerily in sync. The writing is breezy, witty, conversational ... This is a book well worth reading and then reading again."" --Bill Burgwinkle, French Studies ""Courtly and Queer is masterfully written, ambitious, and provocative. Samuelson's integration of queer theory into French medieval scholarship bears exciting new implications for questions of authorship, metadiscourse, poetics, and narrative."" --Deborah McGrady, author of The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France ""Samuelson is a first-rate medievalist--intellectually rigorous and theoretically sophisticated in ways that enable him to push back against rigid disciplinary constraints and stale orthodoxies. His engagement with verse romance and dits as sites of rhetorical, fictional, and libidinal deviation will inspire scholarly debate for years to come."" --Noah D. Guynn, author of Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce"

"""Courtly and Queer is masterfully written, ambitious, and provocative. Samuelson's integration of queer theory into French medieval scholarship bears exciting new implications for questions of authorship, metadiscourse, poetics, and narrative."" --Deborah McGrady, author of The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France ""Samuelson is a first-rate medievalist--intellectually rigorous and theoretically sophisticated in ways that enable him to push back against rigid disciplinary constraints and stale orthodoxies. His engagement with verse romance and dits as sites of rhetorical, fictional, and libidinal deviation will inspire scholarly debate for years to come."" --Noah D. Guynn, author of Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce"

Courtly and Queer is masterfully written, ambitious, and provocative. Samuelson's integration of queer theory into French medieval scholarship bears exciting new implications for questions of authorship, metadiscourse, poetics, and narrative. --Deborah McGrady, author of The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France Samuelson is a first-rate medievalist--intellectually rigorous and theoretically sophisticated in ways that enable him to push back against rigid disciplinary constraints and stale orthodoxies. His engagement with verse romance and dits as sites of rhetorical, fictional, and libidinal deviation will inspire scholarly debate for years to come. --Noah D. Guynn, author of Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce

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Charlie Samuelson is an Assistant Professor of French at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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