Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons

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In this challenging study Priscilla Martin investigates the subjects of women, sex and gender in Chaucer's poetry. She argues convincingly that these are Chaucer's major subjects and that he presents them as an area of human experience fraught with problems. Women, instead of producing texts and meanings themselves, are trapped in the books and meanings of others, and so the Madonna and the courtly heroine, the nun and the wife, are familiar but questionable...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0333641426

ISBN13:9780333641422

Release Date:July 1996

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:254 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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