Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons
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Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons by P Martin
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 images of constructed femininity. '...an intelligent, sensitive, fresh and close reading which focuses upon Chaucer's women ... unconventional and subtle' - John J.McGavin, Times Higher Education Supplement
PRISCILLA MARTIN
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| ISBN 13 | 9780333641422 |
| ISBN 10 | 0333641426 |
| Title | Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons |
| Author | P Martin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year published | 1996-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 254 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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