'The Canterbury Tales' Women Narrators: Three Traditions of Female Authority
- Author / Editor
- Sturges, Robert S.
'The Canterbury Tales' Women Narrators: Three Traditions of Female Authority
- Published
- Modern Language Studies 13:2 (1983): 41-51.
- Description
- Women narrators--Wife of Bath, Prioress, and Second Nun--seek either earthly or spiritual authority over men in CT and establish female poetic tradition, invoking powerful females archetypes.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.