Figuring Out Women: Chaucer's Reading of the Antifeminist Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Robinson, Michele.
Figuring Out Women: Chaucer's Reading of the Antifeminist Tradition
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 1797A.
- Description
- Inheriting the tradition that women were either saintly or satanic, Chaucer grasped the opposition between rhetorical and mimetic treatment, as shown especially in LGW and ManT. Robinson applies medieval and modern feminist theories.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Manciple and His Tale.