The Lion, the Lady, and the Curtain: Alisoun's Transformation Under Feminist Criticism
- Author / Editor
- Biebel, Elizabeth M.
The Lion, the Lady, and the Curtain: Alisoun's Transformation Under Feminist Criticism
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 1564A.
- Description
- Feminist criticism has changed perceptions of the Wife of Bath. Feminist critics perceive her not as a superficial and "garish caricature" of womanhood but as a serious person attempting to establish her identity, rejecting antifeminist tradition, interpreting masculine monopoly of the written word, and then providing a message on queenship. Explores pedagogical uses of WBPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.