Putting the Wife in Her Place
- Author / Editor
- Patterson, Lee.
Putting the Wife in Her Place
- Published
- [London] : [Birkbeck College], 1995.
- Physical Description
- 49 pp.
- Series
- The William Matthews Lectures 1995, Birkbeck College, London, 22 and 23 May 1995.
- Description
- Two essays: 1) "The Place of Philology" argues that the MLE is Chaucer's late and revised addition to CT and that it is properly followed by WBP; Patterson confronts the manuscript evidence and suggests several structural and thematic continuities between MLE and WBPT. 2) "The Place of History" assesses the Wife of Bath's individuality in light of medieval marital and property law, arguing that gaps or inconsistencies between historical facts and trends and what the Wife says about her situation indicate her desire for autonomy and a "companionate" marriage.
- Alternative Title
- Place of Philology
- Place of History
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Canterbury Tales-General.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies