Assumptions of Gender: Rhetoric, Devotion, and Character in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Moore, Marilyn L. Reppa.

Title
Assumptions of Gender: Rhetoric, Devotion, and Character in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2644A.

Description
Rejects psychological characterizations of Troilus and Criseyde, arguing that they are better seen in light of rhetorical and devotional traditions. Associates Troilus with the ethos of petition and devotion and Criseyde with the pathos.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.