Chaucer's Insatiable Wives: Women Eating Men and the Romantic Turn in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Lynch, Kathryn L.
Chaucer's Insatiable Wives: Women Eating Men and the Romantic Turn in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- John M. Hill, Bonnie Wheeler, and R. F. Yeager, eds. Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014), pp. 115-28.
- Description
- Explores metaphors of eating, drinking, hunting, and food preparation, within the framework of the "storytelling performances" of the Wife of Bath in WBT and the unnamed Wife in ShT.
- Alternative Title
- Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Shipman and His Tale