Publication

2007-06-26 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007060030
  • Goodreads2673262
  • LibraryThing5432571

Classifications

  • LCCPN661-PN694HM401-128

Description

"This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision through his varied constructions of masculinity. Because medieval theories of vision relied upon distinctions between active and passive seers and viewers, optical discourse had social and moral implications for gender difference in late fourteenth-century England. By exploring ocularity's equal dependence on invisibility, Chaucer offers men and women access to a vision of "manned," one that fragments a traditional gender binary by blurring its division between agency and passivity."--book jacket.

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