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Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender (Hardcover)
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Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender (Hardcover)
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This book makes a vigorous reassessment of the moral dimension in
Chaucer's writings. For the Middle Ages, the study of human
behavior generally signified the study of the morality of
attitudes, choices, and actions. Moreover, moral analysis was not
gender neutral: it presupposed that certain virtues and certain
failings were largely gender-specific. Alcuin Blamires, mainly
concentrating on The Canterbury Tales, discloses how Chaucer adapts
the composite inherited traditions of moral literature to shape the
significance and the gender implications of his narratives.
Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender is therefore not a theorization of
ethical reading but a discussion of Chaucer's engagement with the
literature of practical ethical advice. Working with the
commonplace primary sources of the period, Blamires demonstrates
that Stoic ideals, somewhat uncomfortably absorbed within medieval
Christian moral codes as Chaucer realized, penetrate the poet's
constructions of how women and men behave in matters (for instance)
of friendship and anger, sexuality and chastity, protest and
sufferance, generosity and greed, credulity and foresight.
The book will be absorbing for all serious readers or teachers of
Chaucer because it is packed with commanding new insights. It
offers illuminating explanations concerning topics that have often
eluded critics in the past: the flood-forecast in The Miller's
Tale, for example; or the status of emotion and equanimity in The
Franklin's Tale; the "unethical" sexual trading in the Shipman's
Tale; the contemporary moral force of a widow's curse in The
Friar's Tale; and the quizzical moral link between the Wife of
Bath's Prologue and Tale. There is even a newhypothesis about the
conceptual design of The Canterbury Tales as a whole. Deeply
informed and historically alert, this is a book that engages its
reader in the vital role played by ethical assumptions (with their
attendant gender assumptions) in Chaucer's major poetry.
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