Eccles Street and Canterbury: An Approach to Molly Bloom
- Author / Editor
- Schwartz, Lewis M.
Eccles Street and Canterbury: An Approach to Molly Bloom
- Published
- Twentieth Century Literature 15.3 (1969): 155-65.
- Description
- Argues that the Wife of Bath is a distant source (not necessarily intentional) for the characterization of Molly Bloom in James Joyce's "Ulysses." Both characters are sensual, hedonistic, heterodox, touched by despair, shrewish, and unfaithful--part of a long tradition of literary women.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion