The New Reader and Female Textuality in Two Early Commentaries on Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Schibanoff, Susan.
The New Reader and Female Textuality in Two Early Commentaries on Chaucer
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 10 (1988): 71-108.
- Description
- The glosses to the Ellesmere and Egerton manuscripts of WBP and WBT illustrate how differently two readers may respond to a single text. Condemning not only the Wife's sexuality but her "textuality" as well, the Egerton commentator struggles to wrest control of the text; the Ellesmere commentator, however, echoes, augments, and supports the Wife's text.
- Analysis of marginal glosses and the role of the narrator in WBP, WBT, ManT, BD, HF, PF, and TC suggests that Chaucer himself had accepted both the emerging private reader and "female textuality" by the time he wrote CT.
- Reprinted in Daniel J. Pinti, "Writings After Chaucer" (New York and London: Garland, 1998), pp. 45-80.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.