The Cultural Otherness of Custance as a Foreign Woman in the "Man of Law's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Hamaguchi, Keiko.
The Cultural Otherness of Custance as a Foreign Woman in the "Man of Law's Tale."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 54.4 (2019): 411-40.
- Description
- Contrasts Chaucer's version of Custance in MLT with that of Gower and Trevet in order to show how Chaucer emphasizes the foreignness of Custance in England and the negative reaction to her, comparing them with documentary instances of xenophobia toward foreign women in late fourteenth-century England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations