Building Class and Gender into Chaucer's 'Hous'
- Author / Editor
- Harwood, Britton J.
Building Class and Gender into Chaucer's 'Hous'
- Published
- Britton J. Harwood and Gillian R. Overing, eds. Class and Gender in Early English Literature: Intersections (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), pp. 95-111.
- Description
- An analogy between gender and class applied to HF reveals that Lady Fame assumes a typical paternal role in naming the tidings that exit the House of Rumor. Although Chaucer's source is Ovid, he divides Fame's house along strict class lines--the house of twigs and the palace--suggesting that the poem's "historical conflicts ... are reflected in its own contradictions" and that "gender and class ... unite."
- Alternative Title
- Class and Gender in Early English Literature: Intersections.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.