G

Galen, 13

Ganelon, 63

Garden of love (in the Parliament of Fowls ), 115 -16, 123 , 124 , 129 , 133

Geertz, Clifford, 291 n

Geffrey (narrator of the House of Fame ), 17 , 88 -89, 91 ;

attitude toward authority, 104 ;

attitude toward Fame, 105 ;

autonomy of, 106 ;

curse of, 100 ;

and Dido, 98 -107;

on dreams, 99 ;

feminization of, 93 , 101 -4;

mistrust of words, 101

Gellrich, Jesse, 82 -83, 90 , 96 , 106 , 114 n, 138

Gender: biological aspects of, 13 ;

hierarchy of, 234 ;

mutability of, 60 , 106 , 212

Gender differences, 11 ;

in the Book of the Duchess , 61 , 66 , 68 ;

Chaucer's treatment of, 14 -15, 133 ;

and courtly love, 20 ;

in the Franklin's Tale , 268 -69, 275 ;

in the House of Fame , 98 ;

ideology of, 287 ;

instability of, 13 , 115 , 151 -52, 174 , 186 , 228 -29, 238 , 239 , 266 , 288 ;

and marital conflict, 199 ;

in the Merchant's Tale , 248 -49, 255 , 263 , 265 -66;

myths of, 55 ;

in the Parliament of Fowls , 118 , 128 ;

and reading, 163 -64;

in the Squire's Tale , 268 ;

stabilization of, 71 , 74 , 82 , 84 , 104 ;

in Troilus and Criseyde , 151

Gender identity, 51 -52;

in the Book of the Duchess , 82 ;

confusion over, 231 -32;

and feminization, 7 , 12 ;

in the Knight's Tale , 211

Genitals, female, 226 -28, 234

Gervase (in the Miller's Tale ), 231

Gilbert, Sandra, 28 , 285

Girard, René, 128 n

Golden Age, 129

Golden eagle (in the House of Fame ), 101 , 102 , 103

Goose (in the Parliament of Fowls ), 127 n

Greek drama, 19 n

Green, Richard F., 22 , 151 n, 165 , 181 n

Griselda, 28 , 29 , 30 , 278 , 280 ;

as allegory of the soul, 205 ;

as Christian ideal, 189 ;

compared to Job, 199 ;

empowerment of, 190 , 191 , 203 ;

marriage of, 190 ;

murder of children of, 194 ;

powerlessness of, 189 -90, 193 -94, 198 , 200 ;

subversiveness of, 195 ;

suffering of, 192 , 205 ;

virtues of, 191 -92

Gubar, Susan, 28 , 285

Gwenevere, Queen, 62