The Wife of Bath and Dorigen Debate Jerome

Author / Editor
Smith, Warren S.

Title
The Wife of Bath and Dorigen Debate Jerome

Published
Warren S. Smith, ed. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage from Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), pp. 243-69.

Description
In WBP and FranT, the uses of Jerome's antifeminist treatise "Adversus Jovinianum" as source material are ironic. WBP presents a more centrist Augustinian tradition than does her acerbic predecessor, and Dorigen's lament prefigures the gentle "resolution of her dilemma."

Alternative Title
Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage from Plautus to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Franklin and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.