Persephone Rises, 1860-1927: Mythography, Gender, and the Creation of a New Spirituality
- Author / Editor
- Louis, Margot Kathleen.
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