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This book is an attempt to discover the origins and significance of the General Prologue-to the Canterbury Tales. The interest of such an inquiry is many-sided. On the one hand, it throws light on the question of whether `life' or 'literature' was Chaucer's model in this work, on the relationship between Chaucer's twenty-odd pilgrims and the structure of medieval society, and on the role of their `estate' in determining the elements of which Chaucer composes their portraits. On the other hand, it makes suggestions about the ways in which Chaucer convinces us of the individuality of his pilgrims, about the nature of his irony, and the kind of moral standards implicit in the Prologue. This book suggests that Chaucer is ironically substituting for the traditional moral view of social structure a vision of a world where morality becomes as specialised to the individual as his work-life.

Chaucer, Geoffrey --- Estates (Social orders) --- Prologues and epilogues --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature --- Satire, Medieval --- Tales, Medieval --- Social history --- Social problems in literature --- Social classes in literature --- Satire --- History --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Political and social views --- -Social classes in literature --- -Social problems in literature --- -Satire --- -Prologues and epilogues --- -Estates (Social orders) --- -Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Sociology --- Medieval satire --- Commons (Social order) --- Feudalism --- Epilogues --- Postscripts (Epilogues) --- Prefaces --- Comic literature --- Literature --- Wit and humor --- Invective --- Medieval tales --- -Chaucer, Geoffrey --- -Political and social views --- -History and criticism --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. --- Social problems in literature. --- Social classes in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects. --- Political and social views. --- -Commons (Social order) --- Descriptive sociology --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Arts and Humanities --- Estates (Social orders) - England - History - To 1500 --- Prologues and epilogues - History and criticism --- Satire, Medieval - History and criticism --- Tales, Medieval - History and criticism --- Social history - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Satire - Religious aspects --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, - -1400 - Canterbury tales - Prologue --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, - -1400 - Political and social views --- CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), d. 1400 --- LITERATURE AND SOCIETY --- CANTERBURY TALES --- PROLOGUE --- ENGLAND --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, - -1400

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An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism. Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has attracted much recent critical attention. Feminizing Chaucer investigates Chaucer's thinking about women, and re-assesses it in the light of developments in feminist criticism. It explores Chaucer's handling of gender issues, of power roles, of misogynist stereotypes and the writer's responsibility for perpetuating them, and the complex meshing of activity and passivityin human experience. Mann argues that the traditionally 'female' virtues of patience and pity are central to Chaucer's moral ethos, and that this necessitates a reformulation of ideal masculinity. First published [as Geoffrey Chaucer] in the series 'Feminist Readings', this new edition includes a new chapter, 'Wife-Swapping in Medieval Literature'. The references and bibliography have been updated, and a new preface surveys publications in the field over the last decade. JILL MANN is currently Notre Dame Professor of English, University of Notre Dame.

CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), 1340-1400 --- FEMINISME ET LITTERATURE --- FEMMES --- FEMMES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- PERSONNAGES --- ET LE FEMINISME --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- JUSQUE 1500 --- 500-1500, MOYAEN-AGE --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Women --- Women in literature. --- History --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Characters --- Women. --- Views on feminism. --- Chaucer's thinking. --- Female virtues. --- Feminist criticism. --- Gender roles. --- Literary analysis. --- Masculinity. --- Medieval literature. --- Misogynist stereotypes. --- Power roles. --- Wife-swapping. --- Characters.

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