The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender
- Author / Editor
- Waugh, Robin.
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