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‘A Mayde, and Last of Youre Blood’: Galahad’s Asexuality and its Significance in Le Morte Darthur
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2014
- pp. 3-22
- 10.1353/art.2014.0039
- Article
- Additional Information
Reading the ‘virginité and chastité’ of Galahad in Malory’s Morte Darthur as asexuality, a subjectivity defined by lack of sexual desire, reveals a logic at work in the text that rejects a futurity based on desire and heterosexual reproduction.