Gender and Romance in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
- Author / Editor
- Crane, Susan.
Gender and Romance in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
- Published
- Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
- Physical Description
- viii, 233 pp.
- Description
- Romance is the medieval genre that most clearly dramatizes gendered identity, focusing on "courtship, marriage, lineal concerns, primogeniture, and sexual maturation." Chaucer's KnT, WBT, SqT, FranT, and Th reflect and confront masculine identity and its objectification of the feminine, feminine mimicry of such objectification, and parallels between gender opposition and other oppositions such as authority and submission, familiarity and exoticism, justice and mercy, public and private.
- Men's magic and women's magic also differ in Chaucer's romances, and his adventures of love suggest a kind of crossgendering in which men manifest "feminine pliancy" to errancy and accident.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Squire and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Tale of Sir Thopas.