Mirth and Bourgeois Masculinity in Chaucer's Host

Author / Editor
Allen, Mark.

Title
Mirth and Bourgeois Masculinity in Chaucer's Host

Published
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D.S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 9-21.

Description
In the transformation from Deduit in the "Roman de la Rose" to the Host of CT, and in the actions of the Host during the pilgrimage, we can see intersections of gender and class as Chaucer constructs the Host's distinctively "bourgeois masculinity."

Alternative Title
Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.