Download or read book Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender written by Elaine Tuttle Hansen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A startling and compelling revisionist analysis of Chaucerian texts. The view of Chaucer that emerges from this work is adamantly not accommodated to most modern critical desires--desires to recuperate a fundamentally humanist Chaucer."--Carolyn Dinshaw, author of Chaucer's Sexual Poetics