Contextualizing Chaucer's Constance: Romance Modes and Family Values

Author / Editor
Archibald, Elizabeth.

Title
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.