The Wife of Bath: Chaucer's Inchoate Experiment
- Author / Editor
- Hagen, Susan K.
The Wife of Bath: Chaucer's Inchoate Experiment
- Published
- Susanna Freer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger, eds. Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 29 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991), pp. 105-24.
- Description
- WBP is Chaucer's attempt to formulate a "gynocentric hermeneutic" that challenges "standard patriarchal hierarchies." Yet, WBT demonstrates the inevitable failure of the attempt since Chaucer was a product of his time, "a fourteenth-century male poet of privilege."
- Alternative Title
- Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in the Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.