Embodying Loathliness: The Loathly Lady in Medieval and Postfeminist (Con)texts.

Author / Editor
Inskeep, Kathryn.

Title
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