Gender and Romance in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"

by Susan Crane

Book Overview

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, romances participate in the late medieval elaboration of new meanings around heterosexual identity. Crane draws...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691015279
• ISBN13: 9780691015279
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 10.0"