The Wife of Bath's Tales: Literary Characters as Social Persons in Historical Fiction.
- Author / Editor
- Hoggart, Carol Ann.
The Wife of Bath's Tales: Literary Characters as Social Persons in Historical Fiction.
- Published
- Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Curtin University, 2019), available at https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/76105 (accessed November 10, 2021).
- Physical Description
- viii, 464 pp.
- Description
- A "creative-production" thesis, comprising the first half of a work of historical fiction titled "The Jerusalem Tales," focusing on the Wife of Bath; analysis of the narrative based on Elizabeth Fowler's theory of "social persons"; and analysis of four other "modern historical-fiction interpretations of the Wife."
- Alternative Title
- The Jerusalem Tales
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion