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Chaucer's Legendary Good Women

Chaucer's Legendary Good Women

Percival, Florence
Minnis, Alastair
Boyde, Patrick

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Book 38

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521020824
ISBN13: 9780521020824
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 6 2005
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 skepticism, apparently influenced by a contemporary antifeminist tradition. 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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