Alison's Incapacity and Poetic Instability in the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Crane, Susan.
Alison's Incapacity and Poetic Instability in the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Published
- PMLA 102 (1987): 20-28.
- Description
- Galled by clerical antifeminism (woman is weak and hence evil), the power-obsessed Alison turns for her tale to courtly romance (woman is weak and hence good). Thus, ultimately she subverts the conventions of estates, gender, and genre, proving herself inconsistent.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.