Holly A Crocker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5921458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holly A Crocker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holly A |
| FAMILY NAME | Crocker |
| SIGNATURE | CROCKER H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Where Now with Medieval Women Authors? Feminism for the Next Fifty Years
Theorizing Gender, Patriarchy, and Liberation: Imani Perry’s Vexy Thing and Medieval Studies
Rivalrous Masculinities: New Directions in Medieval Gender Studies
This volume is a timely, important continuation and development of the scholarly conversation about medieval masculinities. Although this volume grew out of a series of conferences, classes, and scholarly exchanges, it is more than a coterie project; in fact, as the editor Ann Marie Rasmussen acknowledges, the volume is a testament to the kind of wide-ranging humanities scholarship made possible by a program like Duke University's “Humanities Wri…
Feminism without Gender: Piers Plowman , “Mede the Mayde,” and Late Medieval Literary Studies
This article argues that an emphasis on gender has dampened the insights and energies of feminism in analyses of William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Inquiries into gender as a social construction of power have long highlighted women’s dispossession, even erasure, in medieval representations. But such inquiries also have the potential to reinforce, or even naturalize, social conditions that privilege elite masculinity in those same medieval represen…
Medieval Affects Now
Medievalists are uniquely qualified to intervene in what has been called “the affective turn” in contemporary cultural theory (Clough and Halley 2007). That is because, as scholars working across h
In the flesh
As False as Cressid”: Virtue Trouble from Chaucer to Shakespeare
This article argues that Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida continues an important late medieval poetic tradition that highlights the troubling consequences of virtue’s performativity for idealized women. If Chaucer is pessimistic about the potential for Criseyde’s ethical agency in an unstable universe, Lydgate locates the source of women’s mutability in the cultural contingency that accompanies masculine violence, especially war. Henryson’s bra…
Communal Conscience in William Tyndale’s Obedience of a Christian Man
Conscience is foundational for the political morality set forth in The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528), but Tyndale never defines this central term. While Tyndale sees personal spiritual cultivation — achieved almost exclusively through the reading of scripture — as a defense against the "Antichrist's" tricks, his development of conscience is more communal than individual, and more affective than objective. Tyndale defines conscience in the s…
Disfiguring Gender: Masculine Desire in the Old French Fabliau
Old French fabliaux frequently invoke a traditional gender binary associating masculinity with reason and femininity with desire, but even the most conservative examples of the genre unsettle this normative distribution. By taking comic advantage of men's inability to regulate women's desires, fabliaux challenge gender's ability to order bodies according to conventional structures. As the contests of these stories attest, desire founded upon lack…
Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux: An Essay in Applied Narratology . Roy J. Pearcy
Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
New studies of the problem of medieval masculinity, and Chaucer's treatment of it. Issues relating to the male characters and the construction of masculinities in Chaucer's masterpiece of love found and love lost are explored here. Collectively the essays address the question of what it means to be a man in theMiddle Ages, what constitutes masculinity in this era, and how such masculinities are culturally constructed; they seek to advance scholar…
Comic Provocations
This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circula
Showing like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton
Katherine Eggert, Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. ix + 289 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-8122-3532-0. - Volume 54 Issue 4-Part2
Medieval Affects Now
Medievalists are uniquely qualified to intervene in what has been called “the affective turn” in contemporary cultural theory (Clough and Halley 2007). That is because, as scholars working across h
Feminism without Gender: Piers Plowman , “Mede the Mayde,” and Late Medieval Literary Studies
This article argues that an emphasis on gender has dampened the insights and energies of feminism in analyses of William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Inquiries into gender as a social construction of power have long highlighted women’s dispossession, even erasure, in medieval representations. But such inquiries also have the potential to reinforce, or even naturalize, social conditions that privilege elite masculinity in those same medieval represen…
In the flesh
Disfiguring Gender: Masculine Desire in the Old French Fabliau
Old French fabliaux frequently invoke a traditional gender binary associating masculinity with reason and femininity with desire, but even the most conservative examples of the genre unsettle this normative distribution. By taking comic advantage of men's inability to regulate women's desires, fabliaux challenge gender's ability to order bodies according to conventional structures. As the contests of these stories attest, desire founded upon lack…
Showing like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton
Katherine Eggert, Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. ix + 289 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-8122-3532-0. - Volume 54 Issue 4-Part2
Comic Provocations
This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circula
Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
New studies of the problem of medieval masculinity, and Chaucer's treatment of it. Issues relating to the male characters and the construction of masculinities in Chaucer's masterpiece of love found and love lost are explored here. Collectively the essays address the question of what it means to be a man in theMiddle Ages, what constitutes masculinity in this era, and how such masculinities are culturally constructed; they seek to advance scholar…
Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux: An Essay in Applied Narratology . Roy J. Pearcy
Disfiguring Gender: Masculine Desire in the Old French Fabliau
Old French fabliaux frequently invoke a traditional gender binary associating masculinity with reason and femininity with desire, but even the most conservative examples of the genre unsettle this normative distribution. By taking comic advantage of men's inability to regulate women's desires, fabliaux challenge gender's ability to order bodies according to conventional structures. As the contests of these stories attest, desire founded upon lack…
Communal Conscience in William Tyndale’s Obedience of a Christian Man
Conscience is foundational for the political morality set forth in The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528), but Tyndale never defines this central term. While Tyndale sees personal spiritual cultivation — achieved almost exclusively through the reading of scripture — as a defense against the "Antichrist's" tricks, his development of conscience is more communal than individual, and more affective than objective. Tyndale defines conscience in the s…
In the flesh
As False as Cressid”: Virtue Trouble from Chaucer to Shakespeare
This article argues that Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida continues an important late medieval poetic tradition that highlights the troubling consequences of virtue’s performativity for idealized women. If Chaucer is pessimistic about the potential for Criseyde’s ethical agency in an unstable universe, Lydgate locates the source of women’s mutability in the cultural contingency that accompanies masculine violence, especially war. Henryson’s bra…
Medieval Affects Now
Medievalists are uniquely qualified to intervene in what has been called “the affective turn” in contemporary cultural theory (Clough and Halley 2007). That is because, as scholars working across h
Feminism without Gender: Piers Plowman , “Mede the Mayde,” and Late Medieval Literary Studies
This article argues that an emphasis on gender has dampened the insights and energies of feminism in analyses of William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Inquiries into gender as a social construction of power have long highlighted women’s dispossession, even erasure, in medieval representations. But such inquiries also have the potential to reinforce, or even naturalize, social conditions that privilege elite masculinity in those same medieval represen…
Rivalrous Masculinities: New Directions in Medieval Gender Studies
This volume is a timely, important continuation and development of the scholarly conversation about medieval masculinities. Although this volume grew out of a series of conferences, classes, and scholarly exchanges, it is more than a coterie project; in fact, as the editor Ann Marie Rasmussen acknowledges, the volume is a testament to the kind of wide-ranging humanities scholarship made possible by a program like Duke University's “Humanities Wri…
Theorizing Gender, Patriarchy, and Liberation: Imani Perry’s Vexy Thing and Medieval Studies
Where Now with Medieval Women Authors? Feminism for the Next Fifty Years
Art (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Medieval Literature and History (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)