"Rowned she a pistel": National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer's Wife of Bath.
- Author / Editor
- Nakley, Susan.
"Rowned she a pistel": National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer's Wife of Bath.
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114.1 (2015): 61-87
- Description
- Establishes how WBT's treatment of sovereignty and of civic and domestic institutions "redefine[s] English nobility as a national form of identity" that crosses class and gender boundaries. Further argues that Chaucer's anachronistic use of Dante in the old woman's sermon creates a sense of nobility based not on heritage but on "shared ethical standards of virtuous living" and "civic responsibility."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations