Rough Girls and Squeamish Boys: The Trouble with Absolon in The Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Walker, Greg.
Rough Girls and Squeamish Boys: The Trouble with Absolon in The Miller's Tale
- Published
- Elaine Treharne, ed. Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts (Cambridge: Brewer, 2002), pp. 61-91.
- Description
- Absolon's rejection of Alison's sexuality in MilT suggests the kind of masculinity invoked by Mariology and by popular representations of the Annunciation.
- Alternative Title
- Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.