The Wife of Bath's Textual/Sexual Lives

Author / Editor
Tinkle, Theresa.

Title
The Wife of Bath's Textual/Sexual Lives

Published
George Bornstein and Theresa Tinkle, eds. The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 55-88.

Description
Despite Chaucer's efforts to create a stable "poetic self-fashioning," WBPT takes different forms in its different redactions in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts and in Thynne's 1532 edition.
The textual variants of the manuscripts, especially the so-called added passages of WBP, and the glosses to the manuscripts reflect how open the text was. Thynne's version of the Wife "manifests the hegemonics" of his literary tradition.

Contributor
Tinkle, Theresa, ed.
Bornstein, George, ed.

Alternative Title
The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations