Irony and the Antifeminist Narrator in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Hansen, Elaine Tuttle.
Irony and the Antifeminist Narrator in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 82 (1983): 11-31.
- Description
- LGW satirizes the narrator's perspective on women rather than examining feminine virtue. Obvious distortions of the legends reveal the deficiency of the narrator's attitude: he idealizes women in passivity, irrationality, and stupidity.
- Not unfinished, LGW concludes aptly with Hypermnestra "sittynge in hire drede."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.