Squire Jankyn's Legs and Feet: Physiognomy, Social Class, and Fantasy in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Pugh, Tison.
Squire Jankyn's Legs and Feet: Physiognomy, Social Class, and Fantasy in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- Medievalia et Humanistica, n.s., 32 (2007): 83-101.
- Description
- Alison constructs Jankyn as a liminal figure combining both courtly and clerical ideals so that she can celebrate "her triumph over a representative figure of both arenas" (95).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale