Pastoral Histories: Utopia, Conquest, and the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Ingham, Patricia Clare.
Pastoral Histories: Utopia, Conquest, and the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Published
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language 44: 34-46, 2002.
- Description
- Readers are skeptical of idealized pastoral space, yet it influences their view of the real. WBT begins with an allusion to a past, utopian dream world, a vision in tension with the Wife's mercantile concerns. Such utopian dreams are a resistence strategy of the colonized and the marginalized, namely the Welsh of Chaucer's time. By posing such resistence, WBT broadens sovereignty from the domestic to the national.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale