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

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 r...

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Main Author:	Crane, Susan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:	Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:	Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales. Romances, English > History and criticism. Tales, Medieval > History and criticism. Man-woman relationships in literature. Sex (Psychology) in literature. Sex role in literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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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.
Item Description:	Cover.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (242 pages)
ISBN:	9781400863754 1400863759