Rough Girls and Squeamish Boys: The Trouble with Absolon in The Miller's Tale

Author / Editor
Walker, Greg.

Title
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.