Gender and Romance in Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"".

By:

Crane, Susan

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400863754
1400863759

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender and Romance in Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"".DDC classification:

821.1 21

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PR1875.R65 G46 2014

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Contents:

Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; CHAPTER I: Masculinity in Romance; CHAPTER II: Feminine Mimicry and Masquerade; CHAPTER III: Gender and Social Hierarchy; CHAPTER IV: Subtle Clerks and Uncammy Women ; CHAPTER V: Adventure ; Bibliography ; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index.

Summary: In this fresh look at Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer's depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympathetic response to the genre. For Chaucer, she proposes, gender is the defining concern of romance. As the foundational narratives of courtship, romances participate in the late medieval elaboration of new meanings around heterosexual identity. Crane draws on feminist and genre theory to argue that Chaucer's profound interest in the cultural construction of masculinity and femininity arises in la.

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In this fresh look at Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer's depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympathetic response to the genre. For Chaucer, she proposes, gender is the defining concern of romance. As the foundational narratives of courtship, romances participate in the late medieval elaboration of new meanings around heterosexual identity. Crane draws on feminist and genre theory to argue that Chaucer's profound interest in the cultural construction of masculinity and femininity arises in la.

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