Living in a Mercantile World: The Wife of Bath and Fifteenth-Century Women Authors.
- Author / Editor
- Price, Vicki Kay.
Living in a Mercantile World: The Wife of Bath and Fifteenth-Century Women Authors.
- Published
- Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 70-84.
- Description
- Connects the "[f]inancial discourse" of WBP with those of "The Book of Margery Kempe" and of "Paston women's papers," showing that fictional and historical women share a mutual mercantile "understanding of life" that unites their "spiritual, marital, sexual, and economic" roles as medieval women.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale