Masculine Identity in the Courtly Community: The Self Loving in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Aers, David.

Title
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.