'Be War, Ye Wemen': Problems of Genre and the Gendered Audience in Chaucer and Henryson

Author / Editor
Lynch, Andrew.

Title
'Be War, Ye Wemen': Problems of Genre and the Gendered Audience in Chaucer and Henryson

Published
Hilary Fraser and R. S. White, eds. Constructing Gender: Feminism in Literary Studies (Nedlands, West Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1994), pp. 19-38.

Description
When linked to issues of genre, the manner of constructing a female audience in FranT, LGW and Henryson's "Testament" may destabilize narrative closures and thereby offer moral intruction to women.

Contributor
Fraser, Hilary,
White, R. S.,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
Constructing Gender: Feminism in Literary Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Franklin and His Tale.
Legend of Good Women.