Geoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath (ca. 1395) and Christine de Pizan, from "Legend of the God of Love" (1399) to "City of Ladies" (1405): A New Kind of Encounter between Male and Female.
- Author / Editor
- Rabil, Albert, Jr.
Geoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath (ca. 1395) and Christine de Pizan, from "Legend of the God of Love" (1399) to "City of Ladies" (1405): A New Kind of Encounter between Male and Female.
- Published
- Karen Nelson, ed. Attending to Early Modern Women (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013), pp. 189-206.
- Description
- Suggests that Chaucer and Pizan may have created "female voices to speak in opposition to male misogyny" at about the same time because they shared similar educations and the same "cultural and intellectual universe," most evident in their familiarity with Ovid, the "Roman de la Rose," and Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy." Describes the antimisogynist elements of WBPT and Pizan's works.
- Contributor
- Nelson, Karen, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Attending to Early Modern Women
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
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