Chaucer's Grisilde, Her Smock, and the Fashioning of a Character
- Author / Editor
- Carlson, Cindy.
Chaucer's Grisilde, Her Smock, and the Fashioning of a Character
- Published
- Cynthia Kuhn and Cindy Carlson, eds. Styling Texts: Dress and Fashion in Literature (Youngstown, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2007), pp. 33-48.
- Description
- Carlson examines motifs of shame and covering in the two disrobing scenes in ClT, arguing that Griselda's request for a smock to cover herself before she leaves Walter indicates that she has "shown a self that cannot be shamed by Walter, by poverty ,by her father."
- Contributor
- Kuhn, Cynthia, ed.
- Carlson, Cindy, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Styling Texts: Dress and Fashion in Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale