Feminizing Chaucer
By: Jill Mann.
Contributors: Mann, Jill.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Chaucer studies,; 30
Publisher: D.S. Brewer; BOYE6
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Characters -- Women.; Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.; Women in literature.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-187) and index.
Rev. ed. of: Geoffrey Chaucer. London : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.