The Wife of Bath's 'Wandrynge by the Weye' and Conduct Literature for Women
- Author / Editor
- Dor, Juliette.
The Wife of Bath's 'Wandrynge by the Weye' and Conduct Literature for Women
- Published
- Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), 139-55.
- Description
- The Wife of Bath's "wanderings" reflect the multivalent meanings of the word. She contravenes the codes governing female behavior, including the standards for governing noble women and the values involved in "What the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter." In WBP, she travesties deportment literature, and she holds up unruliness as a model in her revised mini-conduct book.
- Alternative Title
- Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales .
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.