Chaucer's Visions of Manhood

by Holly A. Crocker

Book Overview

This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349536377
• ISBN13: 9781349536375
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"