Refiguring the 'Scandalous Excess' of Medieval Woman: The Wife of Bath and Liberality
- Author / Editor
- Blamires, Alcuin.
Refiguring the 'Scandalous Excess' of Medieval Woman: The Wife of Bath and Liberality
- Published
- Thelma S. Fenster and Clare A. Lees. eds. Gender in Debate: From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance (New York and Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 57-78.
- Description
- Connects Alison's sexual liberality in WBP with the loathly lady's liberality of counsel in WBT, arguing that Chaucer "redoctrinates" his audience by converting notions of feminine excess into the positive virtue of generosity. Also considers Blanche's liberality in BD.
- Alternative Title
- Gender in Debate: From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Book of the Duchess.