Queer Chivalry : The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hardcover by Saville, Julia F., ISBN 0813919401, ISBN-13 9780813919409, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

Highlighting the blending of sensual delight and asceticism in Hopkins's courtly verse, Saville (English, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) celebrates the queer status of England's preeminent Victorian troubadour-priest. The author reacts against two opposing schools of Hopkins criticism one praising Hopkins's asceticism for giving birth to his unique poetic talents, the other considering him the victim of an oppressive regimen from which he was only able to escape through sensuous and sometimes overtly homoerotic verse. Saville reconfigures this critical rift by employing Lacanian theories of sublimation and courtly love to characterize Hopkins's oeuvre as evidence of an ongoing process of negotiating homoerotic desire. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()