Chaucer's Women
Title | Chaucer's Women PDF eBook |
Author | Priscilla Martin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Legend of Good Women
Title | Legend of Good Women PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 2006-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1425032362 |
An outstanding poem and a consummate example of employing the dream vision technique. It is one of the longest works of Chaucer. The poet unfolds ten stories of virtuous women in nine sections. It is one of the first mock-heroic works in English Literature. Inspirational!...
Chaucer's Queens
Title | Chaucer's Queens PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Tingle |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2021-01-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3030632199 |
This book investigates the agency and influence of medieval queens in late fourteenth-century England, focusing on the patronage and intercessory activities of the queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia, as well as the princess Joan of Kent. It examines the ways in which royal women were able to participate in traditional queenly customs such as intercession, and whether it was motherhood that gave power to a queen. This study focuses particularly on types of patronage, and also considers the importance of coronation, especially for Joan of Kent, who was neither a queen consort nor a dowager, yet still fulfilled some queenly duties. Crucially, the author highlights the transactional nature of the queen’s role at court, as she accumulated wealth from land, rights and traditions, which in turn funded patronage activities.
Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
Title | Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy M. Allen-Goss |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1843845709 |
An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance.
Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons
Title | Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons PDF eBook |
Author | P. Martin |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 1996-07-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230378633 |
In this challenging study Priscilla Martin investigates the subjects of women, sex and gender in Chaucer's poetry. She argues convincingly that these are Chaucer's major subjects and that he presents them as an area of human experience fraught with problems. Women, instead of producing texts and meanings themselves, are trapped in the books and meanings of others, and so the Madonna and the courtly heroine, the nun and the wife, are familiar but questionable images of constructed femininity. '...an intelligent, sensitive, fresh and close reading which focuses upon Chaucer's women ... unconventional and subtle' - John J.McGavin, Times Higher Education Supplement
The Naked Text
Title | The Naked Text PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Delany |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520309790 |
A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucer’s House of Fame, Sheila Delany’s elegant and innovative study of Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women explores what it meant to be a reader and a writer, and to be English and a courtier, in the late fourteenth century. The richness of late medieval art, philosophy, and history are powerfully brought to bear on one of Chaucer’s most controversial works. So too are the insights of modern critical theory—semiotics, historicism, and gender studies especially—making this a unique achievement in medieval and Chaucerian studies. Delany’s strikingly original readings of Chaucer’s Orientalism, his sexual wordplay, his theological attitudes, and his treatment of sex and gender have given us a Chaucer for our time. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Chaucer's Women
Title | Chaucer's Women PDF eBook |
Author | Priscilla Martin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |