A Medieval Madwoman in the Attic: Chaucer's Wife of Bath in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Yildiz, Nazan.
A Medieval Madwoman in the Attic: Chaucer's Wife of Bath in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Frances Davies and Laura González, Madness, Women and the Power of Art (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013), pp. 117-35.
- Description
- Argues that in "attempting the pen" by telling her own story, the Wife of Bath rebels against patriarchal strictures and escapes suggestions of madness that beset such rebellious women in late medieval England.
- Contributor
- Davies, Frances, ed.
González, Laura, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Madness, Women and the Power of Art
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale