The Vita Sancte Alicie Bathoniensis: Transgressions of Hagiographic Rhetoric in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Koster, Josephine A.
The Vita Sancte Alicie Bathoniensis: Transgressions of Hagiographic Rhetoric in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 35-45.
- Description
- Reads WBP as an example of genre-bending: a parody of female saints' lives. Surveys Chaucer's uses of the conventions of female hagiography in CT and argues that Alison of Bath "acts in precisely the opposite way to an orthodox saint." The essay gives little attention to WBT.
- Alternative Title
- Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.