Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender
- Author / Editor
- Blamires, Alcuin.
Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender
- Published
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Physical Description
- xii, 263 pp.
- Description
- Blamires elucidates ways in which CT and, to a lesser extent, TC engage moral and ethical discourse and shows this discourse at times to be gendered. Grounded in a range of Christian and classical sources, especially Stoic texts, Chaucer's "spectrum of nuances" makes various demands on his audience. Topics include friendship in KnT and TC; credulity and vision in MilT, MerT, and WBT; sexual pleasure and marital debt in MerT, RvT, MilT, and PardPT; sufficiency in MLPT and ShT; gendered varieties of liberality in WBP and FranT; patience and equanimity in FranT, ClT, and NPT; moral jurisdiction in FrT, PhyT, and PardPT; and speech and speechlessness in SNT, CYPT, ManT and ParsT. Neither ParsT nor any allegorical standard establishes a single ethical norm for CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Canterbury Tales - General.
- Troilus and Criseyde.