A Female I-deal: Chaucer's Second Nun
- Author / Editor
- Filax, Elaine.
A Female I-deal: Chaucer's Second Nun
- Published
- Muriel Whitaker, ed. Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 133-56.
- Description
- SNT reflects a Marian-driven ideal of virginal power, mayde and martyr," while SNP stresses Mary as mediatrix, "Mayde and Mooder." The absent female-gendered body of the Second Nun, undescribed in GP, bears witness to the bodies of female spiritual heroines.
- Alternative Title
- Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.