Chaucer and the 'Woman Question'
- Author / Editor
- Mann, Jill.
Chaucer and the 'Woman Question'
- Published
- Erik Kooper, ed. This Noble Craft: Proceedings of the Xth Research Symposium of the Dutch and Belgian University Teachers of Old and Middle English and Historical Linguistics.... (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991), pp. 173-88.
- Description
- For Chaucer, the literary traditions of Ovid and Jerome created a dual image of woman as predator or victim. Chaucer refines and deepens the "double-sidedness" of these traditions, bringing the polarized alternatives into complicating relation with each other. Mann discusses the mock encomium on marriage in MerT and the Wife's tirade against her first three husbands in WBP.
- Alternative Title
- This Noble Craft
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.