Tradition and Chaucer's Unfaithful Women.

Author / Editor
Ramsey, Roy Vance.

Title
Tradition and Chaucer's Unfaithful Women.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 25.06 (1964): 3557A.

Description
Assesses the opposition between idealized women and overt antifeminism in Christianity, Neoplatonism, and western literary tradition, using it as background to argue that Chaucer maintained in CT a successful "tension of opposing viewpoints," even though his "unfaithful women" are more complex than his idealized ones.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General