Anelida and Arcite: Anti-Feminist Allegory, Pro-Feminist Complaint

Author / Editor
Favier, Dale A.

Title
Anelida and Arcite: Anti-Feminist Allegory, Pro-Feminist Complaint

Published
Chaucer Review 26 (1991): 83-94.

Description
In Anel, Chaucer worked out his strategy of pitting profeminist impulses (the poet assumes the voice of the betrayed woman) against antifeminist allegory "in which men's betrayal of women represents poetic language's necessary betrayal of literal meaning."

Chaucer Subjects
Anelida and Arcite.