Chaucer's Feminine Pretexts: Gendered Genres in Three Frame Moments.
- Author / Editor
- Saraceni, Madeleine L.
Chaucer's Feminine Pretexts: Gendered Genres in Three Frame Moments.
- Published
- Chaucer Review 51.4 (2016): 403-35.
- Description
- Explores what Chaucer's use of genres strongly associated with female readers--such as vernacular devotional writing, conduct literature, and hagiography--suggests about his attitudes toward women. Examines the significance of the catalogue of Chaucer's works, including a lost translation of Pseudo-Origen's "De Maria Magdalena," in LGW. Addresses Harry Bailly's response to Mel and its relationship to conduct literature, and the Man of Law's characterization of Chaucer as a writer of female saints' lives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Tale of Melibee
Man of Law and His Tale