Bookburning in Chaucer and Austen

Author / Editor
Martin, Ellen E.

Title
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.