Questions of Gender in Chaucer, from Anelida to Troilus
- Author / Editor
- Blamires, Alcuin.
Questions of Gender in Chaucer, from Anelida to Troilus
- Published
- Leeds Studies in English 25 (1994): 83-110.
- Description
- Examining Chaucer's construction of gender roles and role reversals in light of contemporary medieval texts, Blamires argues that Chaucer manipulated gender stereotypes. The poet ingeniously contrived Troilus and Anelida to confound specific medieval gender expectations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Background and General Criticism.
- Anelida and Arcite.