Chaucer's Legendary Good Women Hardback
by Florence Percival
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature series
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Chaucer's Legend of Good Women is a testament to the disparate views of women prevalent in the Middle Ages.
Dr Percival contends that the complex medieval notion of Woman informs the structure of the poem: in the Prologue Chaucer praises conventional ideas of female virtue, while in the Legends he demonstrates a humorous scepticism, apparently influenced by a contemporary antifeminist tradition.
The debate Chaucer thus promotes could be relied on to entertain many medieval readers, at the same time that it demonstrates the power of the vernacular translator/poet to handle language wittily and to do just as he pleases with the august texts of the past.
This is a comprehensive account of the Legend's interpretative puzzles, which does not ignore the element of political writing, and adds to a close and nuanced reading of the text an examination of literary, historical, and social contexts.
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- Pages:356 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/11/1998
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- ISBN:9780521416559
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:356 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/11/1998
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- ISBN:9780521416559
