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224 pages ; 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Dominant Medieval Discourses on Gender -- Ch. 3. Pervasive Competition and Fragile Control: Chaucer's Appraisal of Masculine Stereotypes in the Frame Narrative -- Ch. 4. The Heroic Discourse: the Knight's Tale -- Ch. 5. Men in Love and Competition: the Miller's Tale and the Merchant's Tale -- Ch. 6. Competing Ideas: Chaucer's Clerks and Academic Disputes -- Ch. 7. Spirituality and Competition -- Ch. 8. Masculinity, Representations of Ideal Femininity in Men's Narratives, and the Challenge -- Ch. 9. 'Female' Narrators and Chaucer's Masquerade: the Second Nun, the Prioress, and the Wife of Bath -- Ch. 10. Conclusion, and Notes Toward Further Inquiry

Author

Laskaya, Anne, 1953-

Publisher

Cambridge ; Rochester, NY, USA: D.S. Brewer

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780859914819

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities