'For the Wyves love of Bathe': Feminine Rhetoric and Poetic Resolution in the 'Roman de la Rose' and the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Patterson, Lee.
'For the Wyves love of Bathe': Feminine Rhetoric and Poetic Resolution in the 'Roman de la Rose' and the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Speculum 58 (1983): 656-95.
- Description
- Investigates traditions of medieval antifeminism to show the ambivalences present in the Wife, whom Chaucer presents as both a satire on womanhood and a threat to orthodox male authority.
- Revised as "Feminine Rhetoric and the Politics of Subjectivity: La Vieille and the Wife of Bath," in Kevin Brownlee and Sylvia Huot, eds. Rethinking the Romance of the Rose: text, Image, Reception (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), pp. 316-58.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.