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Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Hardback

Main Details

Title Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Susan Crane
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:242
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - classical, early and medieval
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780691634968
ClassificationsDewey:821.1
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

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, romance

Reviews

"Susan Crane is a meticulous scholar and a daring thinker-always a rare combination. This 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