The Virgin's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn.
The Virgin's Tale
- Published
- Ruth Evans and Lesley Johnson, eds. Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 165-94.
- Description
- The early Middle English "Letter on Virginity" and the "Katherine Group" saints' lives critique male desire and the violation of female will, challenging conventions of courtly love. In WBP, SNT, and PhyT, Chaucer's use of "virginity material" exposes the "self-construction" of patriarchy, but "less canonical texts of virgin lives" may have more to offer.
- Alternative Title
- Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Physician and His Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.