Contextualizing Chaucer's Constance: Romance Modes and Family Values
- Author / Editor
- Archibald, Elizabeth.
Contextualizing Chaucer's Constance: Romance Modes and Family Values
- Published
- Teresa Tavormina and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 161-75.
- Description
- Considers MLT "in the context of other Middle English family romances," a genre in which "members of a nuclear family are separated and then reunited after various adventures."
- Unlike most other examples of the genre, MLT and "Emare" contain heroines who are central to their plots, and only in MLT is the ending more religious than celebratory.
- In MLT, Chaucer "casts doubt on the conventional, patriarchal construction of family values."
- Alternative Title
- The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.