Afterword to "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions"
- Author / Editor
- Carruthers, Mary (J.)
Afterword to "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions"
- 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. 39-44.
- Description
- Comments on the rhetorical ontology of the Wife of Bath. The character is a figure of power who "continues to bother" because she is not silenced in the text, compelling readers to wish to respond.
- The original essay (without afterword) originally published in PMLA 094 (1979): 209-22.
- Alternative Title
- Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.