Bookburning in Chaucer and Austen
- Author / Editor
- Martin, Ellen E.
Bookburning in Chaucer and Austen
- Published
- Persuasions 21: 83-89, 1999.
- Description
- Identifies WBP as the inspiration for Harriet Byron's burning of a prayer book in the second act of Jane Austen's play, "Sir Charles Grandison," noting in both works the importance of hyperbole, the manipulation of language, and ironic commentary on masculine and literary authority.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.