The Sultaness, Donegild, and Fourteenth-Century Female Merchants: Intersecting Discourses of Gender, Economy, and Orientalism in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Wood, Marjorie Elizabeth.
The Sultaness, Donegild, and Fourteenth-Century Female Merchants: Intersecting Discourses of Gender, Economy, and Orientalism in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- Comitatus 37 (2006): 65-85.
- Description
- Anxious about the threat of Eastern hegemony and the increasing authority of merchant women, the narrator of MLT crafts characters that subtly feminize the East, "Orientalize" the feminine, and discredit women's economic participation as a threat to patriarchal structure. The Wife of Bath destabilizes this subtext.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.