The Wife of Bath Debates Jerome
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Warren S.
The Wife of Bath Debates Jerome
- Published
- Chaucer Review 32 (1997): 129-45.
- Description
- In WBP, the Wife takes not an extremist position on marriage but rather a centralist one, often adhering to the doctrine of Augustine. By burning Jankin's book and by according husbands bliss after she attains "mastery," Alisoun refutes the misogynistic diatribes and opts for reconciliation between the sexes.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.