The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender

Author / Editor
Waugh, Robin.

Title
The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender

Published
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Physical Description
xvi, 230 pp.

Series
The New Middle Ages.

Description
Details the patience genre in medieval literature. Chapter 5 focuses on Chaucer's female patience figures, including Griselda in ClT and female characters in LGW, and compares how Christine de Pizan and Chaucer treat the patience literature genre differently in their works.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations