Reframing the Violence of the Father: Reverse Oedipal Fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of Law's, and Prioress's Tales
- Author / Editor
- Straus, Barrie Ruth.
Reframing the Violence of the Father: Reverse Oedipal Fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of Law's, and Prioress's Tales
- Published
- Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price, eds. Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), pp. 122-38.
- Description
- Straus explores how ClT, MLT, and PrT adapt and accommodate the traditions and conventions of the family romance to "articulate a profound cultural anxiety about paternity."
- Alternative Title
- Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.