My Purse and My Person: "The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse" and the Gender of Money.
- Author / Editor
- Cady, Diane.
My Purse and My Person: "The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse" and the Gender of Money.
- Published
- Craig E. Bertolet and Robert Epstein, eds. Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 109-26.
- Description
- Explores "links between gender ideology and money in the late Middle Ages," arguing that Chaucer's "depiction of his purse as a faithless female lover" in Purse reflects the "cultural imaginary around money before the emergence of
political economy." Moreover, modern critical studies of the poem reveal how scholars seek "to distance Chaucer from the feminizing taint of both poverty and treachery."
- Alternative Title
- Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse