Gender and romance in Chaucer's Canterbury tales
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Gender and romance in Chaucer's Canterbury tales
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, c1994
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Bibliography: p. [205]-227
Includes index
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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.
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