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Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Princeton Legacy Library, 220) by Susan Crane is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Princeton Legacy Library, 220) about?
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 Ch
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- Author
- Susan Crane
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691634968
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Psychology, Romance, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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