Perverse Pilgrims: Chaucer's Wife and Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Holloway, Julia Bolton.
Perverse Pilgrims: Chaucer's Wife and Pardoner
- Published
- Julia Bolton Holloway. Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature (New York: AMS Press, 1998), pp. 173-94.
- Description
- Assesses the Wife of Bath (in contrast to the Clerk) and the Pardoner (in contrast to the Parson) as "Chaucer's Diptych of Eve and Adam," commenting on their depictions in the Ellesmere manuscript and reading them as inversions of the ideals of pilgrimage. Focuses on the Wife's association with Bath and her contrast with the Samaritan woman; considers the Pardoner's distortions of "the Emmaus tale" and his affiliations with the figure of Renart.
- Alternative Title
- Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.