Portrait of a Lady: Blaunche and the Descriptive Tradition

Author / Editor
Allen, Valerie.

Title
Portrait of a Lady: Blaunche and the Descriptive Tradition

Published
English Studies 74 (1993): 324-42.

Description
Argues that Chaucer's portrait of Blaunche in BD is not a mere rhetorical exercise in the tradition of Vinsauf's prescriptions but "a serious attempt" to reform the "descriptio feminae," exploring identity by examining the relation between mind and body.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.