Disordered Grief and Fashionable Afflictions in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and the Clerk's Tale

Author / Editor
Bodden, M. C.

Title
Disordered Grief and Fashionable Afflictions in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and the Clerk's Tale

Published
Jennifer C. Vaught, ed., with Lynne Dickson Bruckner. Grief and Gender: 700-1700 (New Yorl: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 51-63.

Description
In FranT and ClT, masculine grief is aligned with courtly ideals of gentility; feminine grief, with courtly suffering. By complicating these associations and disallowing consolation of grief, Chaucer intervenes in the "discursive practices" of the fraudulence of the values that society attributes to grief.

Contributor
Vaught, Jennifer C., ed.

Alternative Title
Grief and Gender, 700-1700.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.