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.
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