Chaucer's Wife of Bath and John Fowles's Quaker Maid: Tale-Telling and the Trial of Personal Experience and Written Authority
- Author / Editor
- Arnell, Carla.
Chaucer's Wife of Bath and John Fowles's Quaker Maid: Tale-Telling and the Trial of Personal Experience and Written Authority
- Published
- Modern Language Review 102 (2007): 933-46.
- Description
- John Fowles's novel"A Maggot," set in eighteenth-century England, is similar to CT in several ways, from its opening premise to its general structure as a series of "tales" (reconstructions of mysterious events surrounding a death) told by various characters first introduced through detailed portrait-like descriptions. The female protagonist, the "Quaker Maid" Rebecca Lee, revisits the debate that appears in WBT about personal experience versus written authority as a legitimate source of knowledge.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.