Becoming One Flesh, Inhabiting Two Genders: Ugly Feelings and Blocked Emotion in the "Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Burger, Glenn D.
Becoming One Flesh, Inhabiting Two Genders: Ugly Feelings and Blocked Emotion in the "Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale."
- Published
- Glenn D. Burger and Holly A.Crocker, eds. Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 90-117.
- Description
- Compares the Wife's presentation of her conduct in WBPT to the conduct book" Le ménagier de Paris," and shows how the Wife's record of her activities and the presentation of negative emotions function as essentially a reversal of the "Ménagier." By using Sianne Ngai’s concept of "ugly feelings" to contextualize this examination, offers the Wife's texts as a kind of alternative model of heterosexual and married identity to that depicted in "Ménagier."
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale