The Gender of Historicism

Author / Editor
Scala, Elizabeth.

Title
The Gender of Historicism

Published
Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages ((New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 191-214.

Description
Indicts the "patrilineal logic by which the [masculine] gender of historicism is perpetuated and reproduced," surveying how recent publications in medieval studies (especially Chaucer studies) embody the structures of the "patriarchal family."

Alternative Title
The Post-Historical Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.