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Feminizing Chaucer
Contributor(s): Mann, Jill (Author)
ISBN: 0859916138     ISBN-13: 9780859916134
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
OUR PRICE:   $35.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2002
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Annotation: Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has attracted much recent critical attention. Feminizing Chaucer investigates Chaucer's thinking about women, and re-assesses it in the light of developments in feminist criticism. It explores Chaucer's handling of gender issues, of power roles, of misogynist stereotypes and the writer's responsibility for perpetuating them, and the complex meshing of activity and passivity in human experience. Mann argues that the traditionally 'female' virtues of patience and pity are central to Chaucer's moral ethos, and that this necessitates a reformulation of ideal masculinity. First published (as Geoffrey Chaucer) in the series 'Feminist Readings', this new edition includes a new chapter, 'Wife-Swapping in Medieval Literature'. The references and bibliography have been updated, and a new preface surveys publications in the field over the last decade. JILL MANN is currently Notre Dame Professor of English, University of Notre Dame.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Medieval
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.1
LCCN: 2002074412
Series: Chaucer Studies
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.1" W x 9.18" (0.74 lbs) 218 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453)
- Cultural Region - British Isles