The Wife of Bath : : A Biography / / Marion Turner.
From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obse...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 14 color illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- PART I Medieval Wives of Bath: Ordinary Women and English Literature
- PROLOGUE ‘Beaten for a Book’: Literary Form and Lived Experience
- CHAPTER 1 The Invention of Character
- CHAPTER 2 Working Women
- CHAPTER 3 The Marriage Market
- CHAPTER 4 The Female Storyteller
- CHAPTER 5 The Wandering Woman
- PART II Alison’s Afterlife, 1400–2021
- PROLOGUE ‘Now Merrier and Extra Mature’
- CHAPTER 6 Silencing Alison
- CHAPTER 7 When Shakespeare Met Alison
- CHAPTER 8 Alison Abroad
- CHAPTER 9 Alison and the Novel
- CHAPTER 10 Black Alisons: Wives of Brixton, Bafa, and Willesden
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index