Chaucer's Poetics of the Female Body

Author / Editor
Patton, Celeste A.

Title
Chaucer's Poetics of the Female Body

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 545A.

Description
In medieval literature, the human (especially the female) body is treated ambivalently--as ideal, as erotic, and as grotesque, as with Chaucer's Pardoner ("feminized male grotesque") and characters in BD, LGW, KnT, MLT, PrT, ClT, and SNT.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.