Disordered Grief and Fashionable Afflictions in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and the Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Bodden, M. C.
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.