The Stereotype Confirmed? Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Treharne, Elaine.
The Stereotype Confirmed? Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Published
- Elaine Treharne, ed. Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts (Cambridge: Brewer, 2002), pp. 93-115.
- Description
- Compares the Wife of Bath's speech in WBP and Otto Jespersen's folk-linguistic stereotyping of women's language, showing that Chaucer replicates stereotypes of women's language, ultimately undermining the Wife of Bath's authority.
- Alternative Title
- Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.