'All Is for to Selle': Breeding Capital in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Finke, Laurie.
'All Is for to Selle': Breeding Capital in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- Peter G. Beidler, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Wife of Bath." (Boston and New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996), pp. 171-88.
- Description
- A Marxist reading of WBPT that regards the "link between sexuality and monetary gain" as the "key to the sexual economy of the Wife's performance." WBP reflects the violence potential in "primitive accumulation," an early stage of capitalism defined by Karl Marx. Through the pillow lecture on gentility in WBT, the violence is transformed into a "political idyll" of socioeconomic leveling and marital bliss.
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Wife of Bath": Complete Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.