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Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Alcuin Blamires
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-06 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Alcuin Blamires explains how Chaucer shapes human problems in terms of the uneasy mix of moral traditions at the time. He looks at the main ethical and gender i
The Matter of Virtue
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Holly A. Crocker
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-27 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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If material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the pre
Feminizing Chaucer
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Jill Mann
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism. Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings
Chaucer and the Ethics of Time
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Gillian Adler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-15 - Publisher: University of Wales Press

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Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time tha
Rethinking Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
Language: en
Pages: 186
Authors: Carolyn P. Collette
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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"Professor Collette's approach to this challenging and provocative poem reflects her wide scholarly interests, her expertise in the area of representations of w