Title
No Pain, No Gain: Violence as Symbolic Capital in Malory's Morte d'Arthur
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 1998
Abstract
Romances like Malory's Morte d'Arthur endorse a sexual economy of structured violent exchanges in which masculinity is builty around the continual circulation of women and wealth as rewards for sanctioned violence.
Recommended Citation
Finke, Laurie A. and Shichtman, Martin B., "No Pain, No Gain: Violence as Symbolic Capital in Malory's Morte d'Arthur" (1998). Arthuriana 8(2): 115-134. Faculty Publications. Paper 16.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/womengenderstudies_publications/16
Journal
Arthuriana
Volume
8
Issue
2
First Page
115
Last Page
134