Speech In/Action: Gender and Discourse in Medieval English Romance
- Author / Editor
- Seaman, Myra.
Speech In/Action: Gender and Discourse in Medieval English Romance
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 1156A.
- Description
- Medieval romance generally assumes that action is inherently a masculine activity and speech feminine, with both supporting patriarchy. Various English romances examine these assumptions (sometimes ambiguously). WBT employs them to subvert not only the clichłs of romance and chivalry but also the values of patriarchy itself.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.