Context Matters: Intertextuality and Voice in the Early Modern English Controversy about Women.
- Author / Editor
- Ray, Maggie Ellen.
Context Matters: Intertextuality and Voice in the Early Modern English Controversy about Women.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Maryland, 2014. Fully accessible via https://drum.lib.umd.edu/items/5db2e04d-1103-476d-9501-4fec84b11acf (accessed April 4, 2026).
- Physical Description
- vi, 245 pp.
- Description
- Studies "the early modern English controversy about women--the debate about the merits and flaws of womankind--arguing that authors in the controversy took advantage of the malleability of women's voices to address issues beyond the worth of women." Includes discussion of LGW and WBPT in comparison with Edward Gosynhyll's sixteenth-century "revisions" of Chaucer's works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Legend of Good Women
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
