The Wife of Bath : A Biography /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turner, Marion, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Wife of Bath's tale.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Characters > Wife of Bath.
Wife of Bath's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Women in literature.
Wife of Bath (Fictitious character)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Literary criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Medieval Wives of Bath : Ordinary Women and English Literature
  • Prologue. 'Beaten for a Book' : Literary Form and Lived Experience
  • The Invention of Character
  • Working Women
  • The Marriage Market
  • The Female Storyteller
  • The Wandering Woman
  • Part II. Alison's Afterlife, 1400-2021
  • 'Now Merrier and Extra Mature'
  • Silencing Alison
  • When Shakespeare Met Alison
  • Alison Abroad
  • Alison and the Novel
  • Black Alisons : Wives of Brixton, Bafa, and Willesden.

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