Work, Sexuality and Urban Domestic Living: Masculinity and Literature, c 1360- c 1420.
- Author / Editor
- Davis, I.
Work, Sexuality and Urban Domestic Living: Masculinity and Literature, c 1360- c 1420.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of York, 2002. Dissertation Abstracts International C67.02 and C70.33. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; accessed August 24, 2025.
- Description
- Item not seen. From the abstract: "This thesis investigates a particular discourse which conflated ideas of male sexuality and work . . . in the particular social and economic climate of late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century London." Discerns a "strong difference" between Chaucer's treatment of these concerns in CT generally and the more "anxious" treatments by Langland, Usk, Gower, and Hoccleve. However, "the characters of Troilus and the Canon's Yeoman are portraits of interior anxiety which operate as a commentary on contemporary moral concerns about male responsibilities."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Troilus aand Criseyde