Chaucer's visions of manhood / Holly A. Crocker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crocker, Holly A. (Holly Adryan), 1971-

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Characters--Men.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Masculinity in literature.

Men in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiii, 250 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture' s mounting obsession with vision through his varied constructions of masculinity. Because medieval theories of vision relied upon distinctions between active and passive seers and viewers, optical discourse had social and moral implications for gender difference in late fourteenth-century England. By exploring ocularity' s equal dependence on "invisibility," Chaucer offers men and women access to a vision of " manhed, " one that fragments a traditional gender binary by blurring its division between agency and passivity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-240) and index.

ISBN:

140397571X

9781403975713

OCLC:

78072522

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