Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales : Gender in the Middle Ages (ca. 1388-1400)

Author / Editor
Cornelius, Michael G.

Title
Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales : Gender in the Middle Ages (ca. 1388-1400)

Published
Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber, eds. Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003, pp. 69-71.

Description
The stereotypes depicted in Cecilia, the Wife of Bath, and Griselda reflect the continuing conflict between women who want to escape submissive roles and those who accommodate abusive relationships. Cornelius encourages classroom discussion of SNT, WBPT, and ClT in quantitative and qualitative terms.

Contributor
Fisher, Jerilyn, ed.
Silber, Ellen S., ed.

Alternative Title
Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.
Second Nun and Her Tale.