Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages
by
Isabel Davis
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
ISBN-10
0521866375
ISBN-13
9780521866378
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 22nd, 2007
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
490 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 16.00 x 2.20 cms
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Literary studies: ancient, classical and medievalLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval
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Isabel Davis identifies a medieval discourse of masculine selfhood which is preoccupied with the ethics of labour and domestic living in readings of Langland, Usk, Gower, Chaucer and Hoccleve. Davis presents a genuinely fresh perspective on ideas about gender, labour and domestic life in medieval Britain.
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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