Gendered Books: Reading, Space and Intimacy in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Johnston, Andrew James.
Gendered Books: Reading, Space and Intimacy in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Andrew James Johnston, Russell West-Pavlov, and Elisabeth Kempf, eds. Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida" (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 171-88.
- Description
- Investigates two crucial scenes of reading in TC--Criseyde's reading with her attendants in Book 2 and Pandarus's voyeuristic reading of a romance in the consummation scene--finding in their contrasts two opposed models of reading: one that "privileges hermeneutic activity" and the other that prefers "affective immersion." Setting ("paved parlour" versus bedchamber), the meanings of "romaunce," and the poem's "intense familiarity" with the story of Thebes complicate the gendered opposition of reading habits.
- Alternative Title
- Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde