Nature, Masculinity, and Suffering Women The Remaking of the Flower and the Leaf and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women in the Nineteenth Century.
The article examines the links between Chaucer the Nature poet and gender issues. It mentions that Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and the Flower and the Leaf presents a new feminism's defence of women and accepts sexual passion and marriage as potentially virtuous. Unlike earlier medieval catalogues...
| Publicado en: | Making of the Middle Ages pp. 71 - 93 |
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Liverpool University Press 2004 Limited
2007
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| Sumario: | The article examines the links between Chaucer the Nature poet and gender issues. It mentions that Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and the Flower and the Leaf presents a new feminism's defence of women and accepts sexual passion and marriage as potentially virtuous. Unlike earlier medieval catalogues of good women, Chaucer's heroines are faithful and passionate lovers and wives, it points. The remaking of Chaucer's poems serve as catalyst in the development of Chaucer the Nature poet and moralist in the Romantic era, it claims. |
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