Embodying Loathliness: The Loathly Lady in Medieval and Postfeminist (Con)texts.
- Author / Editor
- Inskeep, Kathryn.
Embodying Loathliness: The Loathly Lady in Medieval and Postfeminist (Con)texts.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International A74.12 (2014): n.p.
- Description
- Studies the "role of stigma in determining the social value of a lone woman of loathly proportions or perceptions," discussing a range of texts, medieval to postmodern, including two chapters on WBPT that assess the loathly lady as the "alter ego" of the Wife of Bath.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations