The Relationship of Geoffrey Chaucer's Works to the Antifeminist Traditions.
- Author / Editor
- Pulliam, Willene.
The Relationship of Geoffrey Chaucer's Works to the Antifeminist Traditions.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 28.09 (1968): 3646-47A.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer is "not an antifeminist" despite his uses of misogynistic materials from Theophrastus, Juvenal, Jerome, and others. His uses of such material in TC, LGW, and CT is self-aware and often comic, evidence of his "rising above" his sources.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
Canterbury Tales--General