Old Wives' Tales and Masculine Intuition

Author / Editor
Hahn, Thomas.

Title
Old Wives' Tales and Masculine Intuition

Published
Thomas Hahn and Alan Lupack, eds. Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997.), pp. 91-108.

Description
In drafting learned sources (Ovid, Boethius, Dante) onto the core of a popular story, WBT generates a form of romance with appeal for "serious" readers; the appeal of this genre rests not on marvels and adventure but on individual fulfillment through identification with the passion and compatiblility of the heterosexual couple.

Alternative Title
Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.