Gender, Economics and Morality: Sexuality and Ageing as Depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- O'Neill, Maria.
Gender, Economics and Morality: Sexuality and Ageing as Depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Brian J. Worsfold, ed. Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience (Lleida and Catalunya, Spain: Department of English and Linguistics, University of Lleida, 2005), pp. 73-81.
- Description
- O'Neill surveys Chaucer's attitudes toward age and gender in CT, with particular focus on WBPT. In CT, the "medieval, ageing Englishwoman as a sexual being emerges with . . . dignity and vitality."
- Alternative Title
- "Sexuality and Ageing as Depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: Gender, Economics and Morality."
- Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale