The Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulations of Sexual Politics
- Author / Editor
- Chance, Jane.
The Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulations of Sexual Politics
- Published
- Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1995
- Physical Description
- xxix, 378 pp.
- Description
- Examines Chaucer's astrological and mythological allusions in light of medieval mythographic commentaries, arguing that such analysis discloses "embarrassing secrets."
- Assesses MLP and ManT as indicators of Chaucer's concern with poetic disguise and explores aspects of love and gender in BD, LGW, HF, and PF.
- While the surface love story in TC shields darker concerns of gender and family, CT also contains social, sexual, and political depths implicit in its mythographic allusions and patterns.
- Includes discussuion of KnT, WBPT, MerT, FranT, PhyT, PardPT, and Ret.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.