Deschamps' Anonymous Belle and Chaucer's Wife of Bath : Complementary Experiments in Feminine Audacity

Author / Editor
Kendrick, Laura.

Title
Deschamps' Anonymous Belle and Chaucer's Wife of Bath : Complementary Experiments in Feminine Audacity

Published
Marie-Francoise Alamichel, ed. La complémentarité: Mélanges offerts à Josseline Bidard et Arlette Sancery à l'occasion de leur départ en retraite (Paris: AMAES, 2005), pp. 203-19.

Description
Contrasts Chaucer's Wife of Bath with Belle, who is constructed from the tradition of masculine discourse on feminine attractiveness.

Alternative Title
La complémentarité: Mélanges offerts à Josseline Bidard et Arlette Sancery à l'occasion de leur départ en retraite.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.