Mirth and Bourgeois Masculinity in Chaucer's Host
- Author / Editor
- Allen, Mark.
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.