'Of His Love Daungerous to Me': Liberation, Subversion, and Domestic Violence in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Hansen, Elaine Tuttle.
'Of His Love Daungerous to Me': Liberation, Subversion, and Domestic Violence 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. 273-89.
- Description
- The Wife of Bath's reference to being beaten by Jankyn and the rape in WBT indicate the violent nature of sex, yet the text glosses over this violence, making it seem normal. Although Chaucer's position as poet may have inclined him to identify with women, he did not escape male perspective or achieve a truly feminine perspective.
- 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.