Feminine Dialectic and the Problem of Salvation in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Cote, Mary Kathleen Hendrickson.

Title
Feminine Dialectic and the Problem of Salvation in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2665A.

Description
WBT, PrT, and SNT all confront the masculine authority of books, the nature of love and marriage, and the nature of feminine authority--issues of female identity and agency. They assert a feminine response to masculine discourse in CT, culminating in the balance between SNT and ParsT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.
Second Nun and Her Tale.