7 Result(s)
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Engendering Shrews: Medieval to Early Modern
When Petruchio humiliates Katherine on their wedding day, her father Baptista identifies the feminine bearing of the central term in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew (1623): ‘[S]uch an injury would vex a saint, ...
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Introduction: Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood
As a study of Chaucerian masculinities, this book examines gender’s (in)visibility. Within a modern critical idiom, emphasis on gender’s performativity highlights its dependence upon visibility.1 If we put our c...
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Portrait of a Father as a Bad Man: Visible Pressure in the Physician’s Tale
The Chaucerian tale that most clearly concerns the development of a public masculinity is also the tale that most drastically fails to make relations between self and society visibly convincing.1 This is a tale ...
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Which Wife? What Man? Gender Invisibility between Chaucer’s Wife and Shipman
Many readers wonder if the Shipment’s Tale was originally assigned to Misoun of Bath, and for good reason.1 The opening’s “feminine” pronouns, the tale’s echoes of both the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, and ...
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Seeing Gender’s Aspects: Vision, Agency, and Masculinity in the Tale of Melibee
John Berger’s characterization of sighted relations looks forward to theories of the gaze that have framed feminist considerations of gender and visuality for the past several decades.1 Essential to the purposes...
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“My First Matere I Wil Yow Telle”: Visual Impact in the Book of the Duchess
Beginning with a broken metamorphosis, Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess attempts to resolve the scandal of gender’s visuality through its relational construction of a memorial poetics. In the Ovidian story, metamor...
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Miscellaneous Chaucer: Proverbial Masculinity in Harley 7333
By standards of literary criticism or book history Harley 7333 is a manuscript that merits little notice. Written in six to nine hands, containing various works by Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, seeming....
