Productive Misogyny in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Women, Justice, and Social Order.
- Author / Editor
- Herrold, Megan.
Productive Misogyny in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Women, Justice, and Social Order.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Southern California, 2018. Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
- Physical Description
- 267 pp.
- Description
- Explores how Chaucer, Gower, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer, and other writers "appropriate conventionally misogynistic figures to rethink radically the ethical and political capacities of personhood, and therefore justice, in society." Includes comparison of WBT with Gower's "Tale of Florent" and "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell" to show how these loathly-lady narratives comment on the "limitations of individual autonomy in society-building" by "shunting the notion of compromised subjectivity onto women in general and the loathly lady in particular." In WBT "class conflict is pitted against gender conflict to apologize for a rapist."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations