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Gender and romance in Chaucer's Canterbury tales / Susan Crane.
LIBRA PR1875.R65 C73 1994
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crane, Susan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Romances, English--History and criticism.
- Romances, English.
- Man-woman relationships in literature.
- Sex (Psychology) in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 233 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1994]
- 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 large part from his experience of romance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691069522
- 0691015279
- OCLC:
- 28927086
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