Seductive Violence and Three Chaucerian Women
- Author / Editor
- O'Brien, Timothy D.
Seductive Violence and Three Chaucerian Women
- Published
- College Literature 28.2: 178-96, 2001.
- Description
- The Wife of Bath, the Prioress, and the wife in ShT represent themselves as victims of violence to make themselves attractive to men. In doing so, they draw on texts, such as medieval saints' lives and romances, that depict violence as central to the formation and maintenance of gender. The arrangement of this material suggests that Chaucer was simultaneously aware of, complicit in, and subject to this process of gender formation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Shipman and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.