A Bloody Shame: Chaucer's Honourable Women.
- Author / Editor
- Flannery, Mary C.
A Bloody Shame: Chaucer's Honourable Women.
- Published
- Review of English Studies 62, no. 255 (2011): 337-57.
- Description
- Addresses the "handling of gendered shame" in Chaucer's works, arguing that shamefastness (modesty) is a "point of tension between medieval concepts of manliness and feminine honour." Paradoxically, shame is a feature of female honor, while ideals of masculinity entail the overcoming of female shamefastness. Explores this tension and its paradoxes in FranT, TC, PhyT, the tale of Lucrece in LGW, and elsewhere in Chaucer's works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Physician and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
Language and Word Studies