Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Susan Crane

Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Susan Crane

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.

"Susan Crane is a meticulous scholar and a daring thinker—always a rare combinationThis work is marked throughout by extraordinary expository clarity and a bold readiness to map uncharted areas. Its characteristic virtue is that, having situated itself by this kind of mapping, it then produces a plethora of remarkable insights about texts and their gender-based strategies."—Paul Strohm, Indiana University

Susan Crane is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is author of The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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ISBN 13	9780691015279
ISBN 10	0691015279
Titel	Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Autor	Susan Crane
Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1994-06-05
Seitenanzahl	248
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