Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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This fresh study of Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages shows that his depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympathetic response to the genre. For Chaucer, it proposes, gender is the defining concern of romance.
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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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780691015279 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691015279 |
| Title | Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales |
| Author | Susan Crane |
| Series | Princeton Legacy Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1994-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |