Definitions of Middle English Romance: Part II

Author / Editor
Finlayson, John.

Title
Definitions of Middle English Romance: Part II

Published
Chaucer Review 15 (1980): 168-81.

Description
Romances are distinguished not by the presence of certain features--the erotic, the fabulous, etc.--but by attitudes toward those elements. WBT is "deliberately" not a romance.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.