From Experience to Authority: The Authentication of the Self in 'The Book of Margery Kempe' and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue'
- Author / Editor
- Manzanas Calvo, Ana M.
From Experience to Authority: The Authentication of the Self in 'The Book of Margery Kempe' and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue'
- Published
- Purificacion Fernandez Nistal and Jose Ma Bravo Gozalo, eds. Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 1995), pp. 223-30.
- Description
- Margery Kempe and Alison of Bath represent a basic conflict: as representatives of the nascent bourgeoisie, they seek to inscribe themselves in a tradition that, since they are women, silences them.
- Alternative Title
- Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.