Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Susan Crane (Paperback, ...

Princeton University Press

Gender and Romance in Chaucers Canterbury Tales\nby Susan Crane\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Susan Crane\nTitle: Gender and Romance in Chaucers Canterbury Tales\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: Princeton University Press\nPublication year: 2014\nISBN-13: 9780691606149\nISBN-10: 0691606145\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn this fresh look at Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer's depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympathetic response to the genre. For Chaucer, she proposes, gender is the defining concern of romance. As the foundat.