Marriage as Exchange, from Chaucer to Defoe
- Author / Editor
- Stapley, Ian Bernard.
Marriage as Exchange, from Chaucer to Defoe
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 1154A.
- Description
- Aware that their husbands (as chosen by their families or communities) will determine the nature of their lives, women have sought to choose their own husbands, a daring assumption of sovereignty in a patriarchal society. The Wife of Bath, Shakespeare's Shrew, and Moll Flanders are among the many women characters treated.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.