Chaucer, ethics, and gender

Chaucer, ethics, and gender

by Blamires, Alcuin

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This book, mainly concentrating on the Canterbury Tales, reassesses the moral dimension in Chaucer’s writings. For the Middle Ages, the study of human behaviour was quintessentially moral. It was not gender neutral: certain virtues and certain failings were explicitly or implicitly gender-specific. The book demonstrates how crucial Chaucer’s engagement is with the composite moral/ethical traditions available to him.

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  • Full title :Chaucer, ethics, and gender / Alcuin Blamires.

Summary

This book, mainly concentrating on the Canterbury Tales, reassesses the moral dimension in Chaucer’s writings. For the Middle Ages, the study of human behaviour was quintessentially moral. It was not gender neutral: certain virtues and certain failings were explicitly or implicitly gender-specific. The book demonstrates how crucial Chaucer’s engagement is with the composite moral/ethical traditions available to him.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2008.

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Notes

Originally published: 2006.

The Physical Object

  • Description:263 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780199534623, 0199534624, 9780199248674, 0199248672
  • oclc:ocn190777024
  • LC Classification:PR1875.E84
  • Dewey Decimal:821.1

Table of Contents

Fellowship and detraction in the architecture of the Canterbury tales: from "The general prologue" and "The knight's tale" to "The parson's prologue" -- Credulity and vision: "The Miller's Tale." "The Merchant's Tale," "the Wife of Bath's Tale" -- Sex and lust: "The Merchant's Tale." "The Reeve's Tale," and other tales -- The ethics of sufficiency: "The man of law's introduction" and "Tale"; "The shipman's tale" -- Liberality: "The wife of Bath's prologue" and "Tale" and "The franklin's tale" -- Problems of patience and equanimity: "The franklin's tale." "The clerk's tale," "The nun's priest's tale" -- Men, women, and moral jurisdiction: "The friar's tale," "The physician's tale," and the pardoner -- Proprieties of work and speech: "The second nun's prologue" and "Tale," "The canon's yeoman's prologue" and "Tale," "The manciple's prologue" and "Tale," and "The parson's prologue."

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Subjects

Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey) Chaucer, Geoffrey Criticism, interpretation, etc Ethics Ethics, Medieval, in literature Ethik Geschlechterrolle Morale médiévale dans la littérature Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature Sex role in literature Vertus dans la littérature Virtues in literature

Writers

Blamires, Alcuin

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