The 'Woman Reader': Gendering Interpretation in Boccaccio and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Lartigue, Rebecca Powell.

Title
The 'Woman Reader': Gendering Interpretation in Boccaccio and Chaucer

Published
DAI 62: 3778A, 2002.

Description
Both Boccaccio and Chaucer use the figure of the "woman reader" to represent changing interpretive strategies that, in turn, reflect changes in social complexity. Lartigue focuses on the Teseida, the Decameron, LGW, and CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.