Womanliness in The Man of Law's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
Womanliness in The Man of Law's Tale.
- Published
- Sheila Delany, Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature Medieval to Modern (New York: Schoken Books, 1983), pp. 36-46.
- Description
- Chaucer individualized Trevet's "bluestocking heroine" to make Constance a mere "agglomeration of virtues"; emblem for men and women alike, Constance as Everywoman suffers with Christian passivity because suffering is the human condition; she is a type of the Virgin Mary, while her de-womanized female antagonists are types of Eve.
- Alternative Title
- Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature Medieval to Modern.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.