The Luxury of Gender : Piers Plowman B.9 and The Merchant's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Baker, Joan, and Susan Signe Morrison.
The Luxury of Gender : Piers Plowman B.9 and The Merchant's Tale
- Published
- Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith, ed. William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays (New York and London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 41-67.
- Description
- Baker and Morrison read MerT as a "sustained response" to Piers Plowman B.9. Both works are concerned with marriage, gender, and the pursuits of appetite. Whereas MerT poses a woman who must live expediently, Piers Plowman absorbs gender into "greater, more cosmic concerns."
- Contributor
- Morrison, Susan Signe.
- Hewett-Smith, Kathleen, ed.
- Alternative Title
- William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.