'Raptus' and the Poetics of Married Love in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale and James I's 'Kingis Quair'
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, Elizabeth.
'Raptus' and the Poetics of Married Love in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale and James I's 'Kingis Quair'
- Published
- Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 302-23.
- Description
- The representations of rape (sexual assault and abduction) in WBT and "Kingis Quair" invite consideration of free will and agency as part of a critique of late medieval social formulations of male/female relationships. In WBT, Chaucer indicts contemporary social structures; James I locates the problem in poetics.
- Alternative Title
- Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations