How to See Through Women: Medieval Blazons and the Male Gaze

Author / Editor
Miller, James.

Title
How to See Through Women: Medieval Blazons and the Male Gaze

Published
Robert Taylor, James F. Burke, Patricia J. Eberle, Ian Lancashire, and Brian S. Merrilees, eds. The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993), pp. 367-88.

Description
The portrayal of "faire White" in BD reflects the double vision--physical and metaphysical--of rhetorical description in Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Joseph of Exeter, and Alain de Lille.

Alternative Title
The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.