This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary.
| ISBN: | 9781349536375 |
| Publication date: | 11th March 2008 |
| Author: | H Crocker |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 250 pages |
| Series: | The New Middle Ages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Gender studies, gender groups |