Gender and Romance in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"

by Susan Crane

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691015279

ISBN13:9780691015279

Release Date:May 1994

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 7.8" x 10.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Gothic & Romantic History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Medieval Movements & Periods Poetry

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