Feminine Responses to Masculine Attractiveness in Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Collins, Marie.

Title
Feminine Responses to Masculine Attractiveness in Middle English Literature

Published
Essays and Studies 38 (1985): 12-28.

Description
Examines depictions of masculine attractiveness in medieval romances, including TC. Influenced by rhetorical and courtly traditions, such depictions (and parallel cautions against seduction) emphasize moral and social qualities rather than personal beauty.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Troilus and Criseyde.