Literary Representations.
- Author / Editor
- Wright, Monica L.
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