02910nam 2200733Ia 450 991045122930332120200520144314.01-281-36271-997866113627130-230-60492-710.1057/9780230604926(CKB)1000000000342476(EBL)307657(OCoLC)314793965(SSID)ssj0001657343(PQKBManifestationID)16439014(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001657343(PQKBWorkID)14987239(PQKB)10472816(SSID)ssj0000277794(PQKBManifestationID)11192696(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277794(PQKBWorkID)10241075(PQKB)11278823(DE-He213)978-0-230-60492-6(MiAaPQ)EBC307657(Au-PeEL)EBL307657(CaPaEBR)ebr10194145(CaONFJC)MIL136271(EXLCZ)99100000000034247620070103d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChaucer's visions of manhood[electronic resource] /Holly A. Crocker1st ed.Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan20071 online resource (265 p.)The new Middle AgesDescription based upon print version of record.1-349-53637-7 1-4039-7571-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Chaucer's Visions of Manhood; 1 Seeing Gender's Aspects: Vision, Agency, and Masculinity in the Tale of Melibee; 2 Portrait of a Father as a Bad Man: Visible Pressure in the Physician's Tale; 3 "My first matere I wil yow telle": Visual Impact in the Book of the Duchess; 4 Which Wife? What Man? Gender Invisibility between Chaucer's Wife and Shipman; 5 Miscellaneous Chaucer: Proverbial Masculinity in Harley 7333; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZThis 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.New Middle Ages.Masculinity in literatureMen in literatureSex role in literatureElectronic books.Masculinity in literature.Men in literature.Sex role in literature.821/.1Crocker Holly A(Holly Adryan),1971-898504MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451229303321Chaucer's visions of manhood2007484UNINA