Medieval discourses of masculinity and male sexuality were closely
linked to the idea and representation of work as a male
responsibility. Isabel Davis identifies a discourse of masculine
selfhood which is preoccupied with the ethics of labour and
domestic living. She analyses how five major London writers of the
late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries constructed the male
self: William Langland, Thomas Usk, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer
and Thomas Hoccleve. These literary texts, while they have often
been considered for what they say about the feminine role and
identity, have rarely been thought of as evidence for masculinity;
this study seeks to redress that imbalance. Looking again at the
texts themselves, and their cultural contexts, Davis presents a
genuinely fresh perspective on ideas about gender, labour and
domestic life in medieval Britain.
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