Masculine Identity in the Courtly Community: The Self Loving in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Aers, David.
Masculine Identity in the Courtly Community: The Self Loving in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Chapter 3 in David Aers, Community, Gender, and Individual Identity (London and New York: Routledge, 1988), pp. 117-52.
- Description
- Examines the social psychology and structure of male power--aggression in gazing, rape imagery and fantasy, objectification of women, competitive assertiveness among males--as aspects of "love" and the social expectations for masculine identity in the closed social world of the courtly community in TC.
- Alternative Title
- Community, Gender, and Individual Identity, English Writing, 1360-1430.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.