Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments My thanks to Dean José Fernández and the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Central Florida for providing me with a sabbatical research leave in the spring semester of 2008 to develop this project. I am also grateful for funding this book received from the University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities. In addition, I deeply appreciate the generous support of the team at Louisiana State University Press, particularly Margaret Lovecraft, John Easterly, Catherine Kadair, Lee Sioles, Lauren Tussing-White, Michelle Neustrom, and MaryKatherine Callaway, whose professionalism and steadfast backing of this project have been inspiring. An earlier version of chapter 2 was published as “Dialectical History, White Indians, and Queer Anxiety in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” Essays in Arts and Sciences 31 (2002): 83–102. An earlier version of chapter 4 was published as “‘It’s prolly fulla dirty stories’: Masturbatory Allegory and Queer Medievalism in John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces,” Studies in Medievalism 15 (2006): 77–100. I am grateful to David Sloane, editor of Essays in Arts and Sciences, and to Karl Fugelso and Caroline Palmer of Studies in Medievalism, published by Boydell & Brewer, for their support of this research and for their permission to republish it, in substantially revised form, in this monograph. This page intentionally left blank QUEER CHIVALRY This page intentionally left blank ...