Regimes of the Visual in Premodern England: Gaze, Body, and Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Stanbury, Sarah.
Regimes of the Visual in Premodern England: Gaze, Body, and Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- New Literary History 28 (1997): 261-89.
- Description
- ClT is about visual investigation. Contemporary manuscript illumination, panel painting, and statuary are instructive for understanding Chaucer's representations of lines of sight framing the female body. Relying on complex tensions between an eroticized body and repression of its own eroticizing hints, ClT presents Griselda's body as inflected by doubled and contradictory codes governing how bodies, sacred and profane, can be seen and known.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.