'Slydinge of Corage': Chaucer's Criseyde as Feminist and Victim
- Author / Editor
- Fries, Maureen.
'Slydinge of Corage': Chaucer's Criseyde as Feminist and Victim
- Published
- Arlyn Diamond and Lee R. Edwards, eds. The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977), pp. 45-59.
- Description
- Although the heroine speaks bravely in TC of being her "owene womman," Chaucer's "would-be feminist" is continually victimized by the male-dominated society largely responsible for her limited views about sexual roles.
- Contributor
- Diamond, Arlyn,
- Edwards, Lee R.,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.