Queer Skin in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Its Manuscript Glosses.
- Author / Editor
- Magnani, Roberta.
Queer Skin in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Its Manuscript Glosses.
- Published
- In Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp, eds. Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2918), pp. 195-219.
- Description
- Demonstrates how the Wife of Bath's resistance to "straight" clerical exegesis is reflected in her skin's rejection of violently enforced "cutaneous legibility" and the forced reading of her "seinte Venus seel" as an innate and legible marker of her corruption. Claims, rather, that Alisoun's skin is like a manuscript palimpsest, in that essentialist gender binary is overwritten with queer possibility.
- Alternative Title
- Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies