The Wife of Bath as Inspiration for Defoe's Moll Flanders: A Case of Eighteenth-Century Medievalism

Author / Editor
Stock, Lorraine, and Betty J. Proctor.

Title
The Wife of Bath as Inspiration for Defoe's Moll Flanders: A Case of Eighteenth-Century Medievalism

Published
Medieval Perspectives 25 (2010): 103-23.

Description
Demonstrates Daniel Defoe's familiarity with CT, and documents the fundamental influence of Chaucer's Wife of Bath on the form and content of "Moll Flanders."

Contributor
Proctor, Betty J.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion