A Battle for "Cherl" Masculinity in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Smith, Sueanna.

Title
A Battle for "Cherl" Masculinity in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Sigma Tau Delta Review 8 (2011): 16-30.

Description
Argues that MilT and RvT "revise the image of masculine chivalry constructed in" KnT, the first offering a model of "physical 'cherl' masculinity," the second "an image of masculinity that prizes internal desire over physical bravado." Through their tales, "pilgrims clearly articulate their own private self-images."

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale
Knight and His Tale