Women Displaced: Rape and Romance in Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Saunders, Corinne J.
Women Displaced: Rape and Romance in Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Arthurian Literature 13 (1995): 115-31.
- Description
- Assesses the rape in WBT in light of rape as an "episodic unit" in medieval romance and in light of medieval law.
- In both the romance and the legal contexts, rape is ambiguous, and WBT reflects this ambiguity, affirming patriarchal values while exploring the possibility for educating men about female desire for action against rape.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.