The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- McCracken, Peggy.
The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- xii, 178 pp.
- Description
- Mentions MLT, PrT, and ClT in the larger context of gender and blood in medieval culture. McCracken argues that gendered cultural values are "mapped onto blood and that cultural values are inscribed into a natural order." Compares Chaucer's MLT with "Le Roman du Comte d'Anjou," which makes an implicit connection between the "polluting blood of parturition and the supposedly non-noble blood of the mother," suggesting that Chaucer's reference to monstrous birth refers to the "contested lineage and rituals that define the impurity of childbirth." Bibliography and index.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.