Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 346 g
ISBN: 978-0-333-64142-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
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
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Preface and Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - The Man with the Book, or 'Who Painted the Lion?' - Two Ideals: The Dame and the Duchess - Two Misfits: The Nun and the Wife - The Amazon and the Wise Woman, or 'God Knows What She Thought' - The Merchandise of Love: Winners and Wasters - The Merchandise of Love: Wives and Merchants - Real Women in Imaginary Gardens - The Saints - Criseyde - The Women in the Books - Sex, Discourse and Silence -Notes - Index
