The Wife of Bath and the Mark of Adam
- Author / Editor
- Hansen, Elaine Tuttle.
The Wife of Bath and the Mark of Adam
- Published
- Women's Studies 15 (1988): 399-416.
- Description
- Hansen reaffirms the importance of the Wife of Bath to feminist criticism but also argues that her character is the creation of a male poet: the reader must not readily take the Wife as an authority, "as a female speaker or subject or as a straight-forward mimetic representation of any arguably 'real' female experience."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.