Susan Crane

Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this fresh look at Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer's depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympathetic response to the genre. For Chaucer, she proposes, gender is the defining concern of romance. As the foundational narratives of courtship, romances participate in the late medieval elaboration of new meanings around heterosexual identity. Crane draws on feminist and genre theory to argue that Chaucer's profound interest in the cultural construction of masculinity and femininity arises in large part from his experience of romance.

In depicting the maturation of young women and men, romances stage an ideology of identity that is based in gender difference. Less obviously gendered concerns of romance--social hierarchy, magic, and adventure--are also involved in expressing femininity and masculinity. The genders prove to be not simply binary opposites but overlapping and shifting coreferents. Precarious social standing can carry a feminine taint; women's adventures recall but also contradict those of men. This lively study reveals that Chaucer's redeployments of romance are particularly sensitive to the crucial place gender holds in the genre.

Originally published in 1994.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781400863754
• Artikelnr.: 41206405

Autorenporträt

Susan Crane is a poet, creative writer, artist and competitive mini golfer. She attended both Chattanooga State Community College and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga graduating in 2019 with a bachelors degree in dietetics. She currently lives in a cozy home in Tennessee with her husband, Philip, and cat-son Carbohydrate a.k.a. Carbo. Her debut book is a collection of poetry. It follows her journey through childhood trauma, domestic abuse, suicidal thoughts and loss; while finding love and herself. Her message with the book is one of hope.