"If women hadde written stories": Gender and Social Change in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" and Jane Austen's "Persuasion."
- Author / Editor
- Michoux, Anne-Claire, and Katrin Rupp.
"If women hadde written stories": Gender and Social Change in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" and Jane Austen's "Persuasion."
- Published
- Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Martin Hilpert, eds. The Challenge of Change (Tübingen: Narr, 2018), pp. 101-21.
- Description
- Suggests that Jane Austen may have known WBPT and argues that there are similarities between Chaucer's Wife and Anne Elliot in Austen's "Persuasion," in that both characters "note that male authoritarian writing delimits women's social standing," and that each "offers textual alternatives [textiles and texts] that challenge the hegemony of male writing" and urges social change in order to inscribe women in literary tradition.
- Contributor
- Rupp, Katrin.
Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret, ed.
Hilpert, Martin, ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Challenge of Change.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion