Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulation of Sexual Politics

by Jane Chance

Provides a many-sided look at the poems of Chaucer and the sexual politics of his day.

The concealment of embarrassing, often sexual, secrets and the burden of political alliances and strategies-in short, sexual politics-motivated Chaucer in much of his work. This concept, long suspected but mostly ignored by Chaucer critics, finally receives its first full treatment in The Mythographic Chaucer. Firmly placing Chaucer in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816622779
• ISBN13: 9780816622771
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"