Wikked Wyves and Blythe Bachelers: Secular Misogamy from Juvenal to Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Wilson, Katharina Margit.
Wikked Wyves and Blythe Bachelers: Secular Misogamy from Juvenal to Chaucer.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1980. Dissertation Abstracts International A41.11. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (accessed 3/13/2026).
- Physical Description
- iv, 289 pp.
- Description
- Assesses secular misogamy as a topos "exploited in early Western literature for two fundamental purposes: propaganda and entertainment," dividing it into four categories: Pagan, Ascetic, Philosophic, and General. Discusses WBP in the latter category as a ironic "'dissuasio' disguised as a 'persuasio'," rife with familiar commonplaces, and addressed to a general audience for essentially comic entertainment.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations