Beauty and the East, a Modern Love Story: Women, Children, and Imagined Communities in The Man of Law's Tale and Its Others
- Author / Editor
- Heng, Geraldine.
Beauty and the East, a Modern Love Story: Women, Children, and Imagined Communities in The Man of Law's Tale and Its Others
- Published
- Geraldine Heng. Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 181-237.
- Description
- Heng assesses MLT as an account of a "feminized crusade" that involves "sexual martyrdom" on the part of Custance and reveals the power of her "reproductive sexuality." The fusion of hagiography and romance in MLT is also evident in ClT, but while both Tales show how the "politics of emotion undergirds the nationalist imaginary," MLT also indicates how (as in "King of Tars") race challenges ideas of community.
- Alternative Title
- Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.