Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 4069
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Bodden , M. C.
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  • Title: Disordered Grief and Fashionable Afflictions in Chaucer's "Franklin's Tale" and the "Clerk's Tale" [The author examines the gendered treatment of grief. Dorigen's expressions are extremely anguished and disordered, while the male characters experience grief more "rationally" in connection with honor and the loss of power over women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Grief and Gender: 700-1700.  Edited by Jennifer C. Vaught with Lynne Dickson Bruckner.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.  Pages 51 - 63.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Franklin's Tale Dorigen (Literary Figure) Gender in Literature Literature- Verse Masculinity in Literature Mourning in Literature Women in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: Marquette University
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  • Year of Publication: 2003.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0312293828