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Feminizing Chaucer / Jill Mann.
- Title
- Feminizing Chaucer / Jill Mann.
- Author
- Mann, Jill.
- Publication
- Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR1928.W64 M36 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxi, 194 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Chaucer studies, 0261-9822 ; 30
- Uniform Title
- Chaucer studies 30.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Note
- Rev. ed. of: Geoffrey Chaucer. London : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-187) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Women and betrayal -- Antifeminism -- The surrender of Maistrye -- Suffering woman, suffering God -- The feminized hero.
- ISBN
- 0859916138 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002074412 ^
- OCLC
- 48932414
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library