Medieval Masculinities and Modern Interpretations : The Problem of the Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Bullough, Vern L.,with Gwen Whitehead Brewer.
Medieval Masculinities and Modern Interpretations : The Problem of the Pardoner
- Published
- Jacqueline Murray, ed. Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West. Garland Medieval Casebooks, no. 25; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, no. 2078 (New York and London: Garland, 1999), pp. 93-110.
- Description
- By making the Pardoner offensive, Chaucer "established a negative stereotype of the effeminate male in Western literature." Modern critical tradition perpetuates the negative stereotype, often ignoring the fact that the Canterbury society tolerates the Pardoner.
- Contributor
- Murray, Jacqueline,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.