Chaucer's Chaste Brides: Narrative Treatment in 'The Canterbury Tales' of Emelye, Constance, and Cecilia
- Author / Editor
- Morison, Mariel Karen Osborn.
Chaucer's Chaste Brides: Narrative Treatment in 'The Canterbury Tales' of Emelye, Constance, and Cecilia
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 3900A.
- Description
- Though reduced to a symbol in KnT, Emelye foreshadows the Christian virgin; in MLT, despite her passivity and the rhetoric surrounding her, Constance engages audience sympathy and imparts a Christian message; in SNT, Cecilia reveals divine light.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.