The More Things Change: Maria Edgeworth’s "The Modern Griselda.”
- Author / Editor
- Langdon, Alison Ganze
The More Things Change: Maria Edgeworth’s "The Modern Griselda.”
- Published
- Year’s Work in Medievalism 28 (2012): 2-9.
- Description
- Examines ClT and Maria Edgeworth's "The Modern Griselda" in light of their respective contemporaneous conduct manuals for women, arguing that the protagonist of each narrative becomes "monstrous" in "fulfilling too completely the ideals of womanhood extolled by their particular cultural milieus."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations