Job's Wife, Walter's Wife, and the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Astell, Ann W.
Job's Wife, Walter's Wife, and the Wife of Bath
- Published
- Raymond-Jean Frontain and Jan Wojcik, eds. Old Testament Women in Western Literature (Conway, Ark.: UCA Press, 1991), pp. 92-107.
- Description
- Gregory's Moralia in Job not only associates Job's wife with Eve as the archetypal temptress but also links her voice to the feminine speaking of poetry, with its imagistic power to move, delight, and (mis)instruct. Chaucer refashions her in CT in the double form of Alisoun of Bath and patient Griselda, using the stories of these two Joban wives to dramatize his own troubled relationship to his literary inheritance, especially Latin clerical writings.
- Alternative Title
- Old Testament Women in Western Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.