Eve's Orphans: Mothers and Daughters in Medieval English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Stiller, Nikki.
Eve's Orphans: Mothers and Daughters in Medieval English Literature
- Published
- Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.
- Series
- Contributions in Women's Studies, no. 16.
- Description
- The mother-daughter bond appearing in medieval English poetry and hagiography is analyzed from a modern sociopsychological point of view, especially the surrogate mother-daughter, in which hags and crones advise young women. Deals briefly with WBT, ClT, PrT, SNT, RvT, LGW, and TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.