Chaucer's Insatiable Wives: Women Eating Men and the Romantic Turn in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Lynch, Kathryn L.

Title
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