Erotic Magic: The Enchantress in Middle English Romance

Author / Editor
Saunders, Corinne [J.]

Title
Erotic Magic: The Enchantress in Middle English Romance

Published
Amanda Hopkins and Cory James Rushton, eds. The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.; and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007), pp. 38-52.

Description
Through otherworldly female characters, a number of Middle English romances and their French ancestors "interweave" heterosexual, romantic desire with magic and the supernatural. WBT, however, "subverts" this convention by reproving the violence of rape.

Alternative Title
The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale