The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception
- Author / Editor
- Collette, Carolyn P., ed.
The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 203 pp.
- Series
- Chaucer Studies, no. 36
- Description
- Eight essays by various authors, with an index and an introduction by the editor, who argues that Alceste's mediation is central to LGW, a poem about the "public dimension of ideal female behavior." The poem is best understood in the context of late medieval interest in re-shaping narratives of exemplary women. For individual essays, search for Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception under Alternative Title.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.