Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse

by Robert S. Sturges

Chaucer s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice. Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is genuinely both premodern and postmodern. Drawing on theorists ranging from St. Augustine and Alain de Lille to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312213662
• ISBN13: 9780312213664
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"