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Chaucer's Visions of Manhood
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This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Chaucerâs Visions of Manhood
- 1 Seeing Genderâs Aspects: Vision, Agency, and Masculinity in the Tale of Melibee
- 2 Portrait of a Father as a Bad Man: Visible Pressure in the Physicianâs Tale
- 3 âMy first matere I wil yow telleâ: Visual Impact in the Book of the Duchess
- 4 Which Wife? What Man? Gender Invisibility between Chaucerâs Wife and Shipman
- 5 Miscellaneous Chaucer: Proverbial Masculinity in Harley 7333
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index