New Contexts for the Classics: Wanderers and Revolutionaries in the Tales of the Franklin and the Clerk

Author / Editor
Fernández Rodríguez, Carmen María.

Title
New Contexts for the Classics: Wanderers and Revolutionaries in the Tales of the Franklin and the Clerk

Published
SELIM 13 (2005): 225-52.

Description
From a feminist perspective, Fernández Rodríguez compares FranT and ClT with Fanny Burney's "The Wanderer" (1814) and Maria Edgeworth's "The Modern Griselda" (1805). Dorigen's and Griselda's domestic constraints contrast the ones depicted by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British female writers who lived surrounded by conduct books and the cult of sensibility.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale