The mythographic Chaucer : the fabulation of sexual politics /
Jane Chance reveals how the concealment of embarrassing secrets often sexual in nature and the burden of political alliances and strategies-what might together be termed sexual politics-motivated Chaucer in much of his work. Firmly placing Chaucer in the cultural politics of his time, she shows how...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
1994.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttv9p |
Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations; A Chronology of Major Medieval Mythographers; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Fables and Swich Wrecchednesse
- Part 1. Mythography and Female Authority in the Dream Visions; Part 2. Mythographic Cross-Gendering in the Troilus; Part 3. Subversive Mythography: The Speaker as Feminized Subject in the Canterbury Tales; Notes; Index