Chaucer's Grisilde, Her Smock, and the Fashioning of a Character

Author / Editor
Carlson, Cindy.

Title
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