Portrait of a Lady: Blaunche and the Descriptive Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Allen, Valerie.
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.