Reading Chaucer's 'Manly Man': The Trouble with Masculinity in the 'Monk's Prologue' and 'Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Sharp, Michael D.
Reading Chaucer's 'Manly Man': The Trouble with Masculinity in the 'Monk's Prologue' and 'Tale'
- 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. 173-85.
- Description
- MkT critiques secular masculinity, represented by the Host and the Knight; their comments about the Tale disclose more about themselves than about the Tale or its teller. Against these two figures, the "Monk remains a figure of resistance."
- Alternative Title
- Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.