Persephone Rises, 1860-1927: Mythography, Gender, and the Creation of a New Spirituality

Author / Editor
Louis, Margot Kathleen.

Title
Persephone Rises, 1860-1927: Mythography, Gender, and the Creation of a New Spirituality

Published
Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2009.

Physical Description
xiv, 171 pp.

Description
Includes comments on Proserpyna in MerT as equivalent to the Wife of Bath and on the Proserpyna/Pluto exchange as an intertwining of the classics and Christian heritage, particularly "Judeo-Christian antifeminism."

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale