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Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer Studies)
Masculinities in Chaucer Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde - Chaucer Studies Author:Peter G. Beidler How does Chaucer portray the various male pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales? How manly is Troilus? To what extent can the spirit and terminology of recent feminist criticism inform the study of Chaucer's men? Is there such athing as a distinct Chaucerian masculinity, or does it appear in a multitude of different forms? These are some of the quest... more »ions that the contributors to this ground-breaking and provocative volume attempt to answer, using a diversity of critical methods and theories. Some look at the behaviour of noble or knightly men; some at clerics, or businessmen, or churls; others examine the so-called masculine qualities of female characters, and the feminine qualities of male characters. Topics include the Host's bourgeois masculinity; the erotic triangles operating in the Miller's Tale; why Chaucer diminished the sexuality of Sir Thopas; and whether Troilus is effeminate, impotent or an example of true manhood.« less