Rewriting Woman Good: Gender and the Anxiety of Influence in Two Late-Medieval Texts
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
Rewriting Woman Good: Gender and the Anxiety of Influence in Two Late-Medieval Texts
- Published
- Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 75-92.
- Description
- Also published in Sheila Delany, Medieval Literary Politics: Shapes of Ideology (Manchester University Press, 1990), pp. 74-87.
- In LGW, Chaucer, writing as a man, fails to escape the antifeminist tradition, while Christine de Pisan, in "Cite des dames," writing as woman, must break down the tradition to affirm her place as a woman writing. As a revisionist, Christine is more successful than is Chaucer.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer in the Eighties.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.