Chaucer's Women and Women's Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Diamond, Arlyn.
Chaucer's Women and Women's Chaucer
- Published
- Arlyn Diamond and Lee R. Edwards, eds. The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977), pp. 60-83.
- Description
- A feminist analysis of the "Marriage Group" reveals that Chaucer draws his characterization of women largely from medieval stereotypes. He is unable to go beyond a Griselda (Virgin Mary) or a Dame Alisoun (Eve) to create a female "both virtuous and three-dimensional."
- Contributor
- Diamond, Arlyn,
- Edwards, Lee R.,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.