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Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons

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  • © 1996

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  1. Priscilla Martin
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Man with the Book, or ‘Who Painted the Lion?’

    • Priscilla Martin
    Pages 1-13

  3. Two Ideals: The Dame and the Duchess

    • Priscilla Martin
    Pages 14-29

  4. Two Misfits: The Nun and the Wife

    • Priscilla Martin
    Pages 30-39

  5. The Amazon and the Wise Woman, or ‘God Knows What She Thought’

    • Priscilla Martin
    Pages 40-65

  6. The Merchandise of Love: Winners and Wasters

    • Priscilla Martin
    Pages 66-83

  7. The Merchandise of Love: Wives and Merchants

    • Priscilla Martin
    Pages 84-105

  8. Real Women in Imaginary Gardens

    • Priscilla Martin
    Pages 106-130

  9. The Saints

    • Priscilla Martin
    Pages 131-155

  10. Criseyde

    • Priscilla Martin
    Pages 156-188

  11. The Women in the Books

    • Priscilla Martin
    Pages 189-217

  12. Sex, Discourse and Silence

    • Priscilla Martin
    Pages 218-230

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 231-254
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In this challenging study Priscilla Martin investigates the subjects of women, sex and gender in Chaucer's poetry. She argues convincingly that these are Chaucer's major subjects and that he presents them as an area of human experience fraught with problems. Women, instead of producing texts and meanings themselves, are trapped in the books and meanings of others, and so the Madonna and the courtly heroine, the nun and the wife, are familiar but questionable images of constructed femininity. '...an intelligent, sensitive, fresh and close reading which focuses upon Chaucer's women ... unconventional and subtle' - John J.McGavin, Times Higher Education Supplement

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PRISCILLA MARTIN

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