Literary Representations.

Author / Editor
Wright, Monica L.

Title
Literary Representations.

Published
Sarah-Grace Heller, ed. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), pp. 159-72.

Description
Explores medieval literary representations of clothing, nudity, and fashion. Includes discussion (pp. 160-63) of how the Wife of Bath's clothing indicates her "personality" and "the crisis of legibility in the fashion system in England"; reproduces the Ellesmere illustration of the Wife.

Contributor
Heller, Sarah-Grace, ed.

Alternative Title
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale