Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Fellowship and Detraction in the Architecture of the Canterbury Tales: from the General Prologue and the Knight's Tale to the Parson's Prologue
2: Credulity and Vision: the Miller's Tale, the Merchant's Tale, the Wife of Bath's Tale
3: Sex and Lust: The Merchant's Tale, The Reeve's Tale, and other Tales
4: The Ethics of Sufficiency: the Man of Law's Introduction and Tale, the Shipman's Tale
5: Liberality: the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale and the Franklin's Tale
6: Problems of Patience: the Franklin's Tale, the Clerk's Tale, the Nun's Priest's Tale
7: Men, Women and Moral Jurisdiction: the Friar's Tale, the Physician's Tale, and the Pardoner
8: Proprieties of Work and Speech: the Second Nun's Prologue and Tale, the Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale, the Manciple's Prologue and Tale, and the Parson's Prologue
Conclusion

About the Author

Alcuin Blamires is Professor of English and Head of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Reviews

In each of these chapters, Blamires' analysis leads to rich, new, and often provocative readings of the tales or passages within the tales...Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender richly demonstrates how generative it can be to read Chaucer's writings in dialogue with the ideas expressed in the moral and ethical treatises that inform the complicated world view of the late fourteenth century. Ann Dobyns, The Medieval Review [A] stimulating book...I look forward to returning to it repeatedly with different questions and new curiosities. K.P.Clarke, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 57, No. 232 ...a significant contribution to ethical discourse in Chaucer Studies. Medium Aevum, Volume LXXVI A great strength of Blamires's book is that it shows how norms are realized and relativized in particular narratives...a fresh and vigorous perspective on the genealogy of ethics and gender in Chaucer. J. Allan Mitchell, English Studies