The Wife of Bath and Molly Bloom: Self-Portrait of Two Women

Author / Editor
Erzgräber, Willi.

Title
The Wife of Bath and Molly Bloom: Self-Portrait of Two Women

Published
Clausdirk Pollner, Helmut Rohlfing, and Frank-Rutger Hausmann, eds. Bright Is the Ring of Words: Festschrift fur Horst Weinstck zum 65 Geburtstag (Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag, 1996), pp. 75-82.

Description
Compares Molly Bloom's concluding monologue with WBP, assessing the two characters' views on sexuality and euphemism and their relations with their husbands.

Alternative Title
Bright Is the Ring of Words: Festschrift fur Horst Weinstock zum 65 Geburtstag.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Chaucer's Influence and later Allusion.