Male Movement and Female Fixity in the Franklin's Tale and Il Filocolo
- Author / Editor
- Rossi-Reder, Andrea.
Male Movement and Female Fixity in the Franklin's Tale and Il Filocolo
- 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. 105-16.
- Description
- Like Boccaccio in Il Filocolo, Chaucer in FranT contrasts men and women by emphasizing men's mobility and women's fixity. Men are depicted as publicly and physically active, while women are privately and intellectually active.
- Alternative Title
- Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.