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Turner, Marion, 1976-
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Characters -- Wife of Bath.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Wife of Bath's tale.
Wife of Bath (Fictitious character)
Women in literature.
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Turner, Marion, 1976-
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Characters -- Wife of Bath.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Wife of Bath's tale.
Wife of Bath (Fictitious character)
Women in literature.
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The
Wife
of
Bath
: a biography / Marion Turner.
by
Turner, Marion, 1976-
Princeton University Press, 2023.
Call #:
821.1 T964w
Subjects
Chaucer
,
Geoffrey
,
-1400
-- Characters --
Wife
of
Bath
.
Chaucer
,
Geoffrey
,
-1400
.
Wife
of
Bath
's
tale
.
Wife
of
Bath
(Fictitious character)
Women in literature.
ISBN:
9780691206011 (hc)
Description:
x, 320 p., 8 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some color) ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"From the award-winning biographer of
Chaucer
, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo Ever since her triumphant debut in
Chaucer
's Canterbury Tales, the
Wife
of
Bath
, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers -- from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, drama, fiction, and film. In The
Wife
of
Bath
, Marion Turner tells the fascinating story of where
Chaucer
's favourite character came from, how she related to real medieval women, and where her many travels have taken her since the fourteenth century, from Falstaff and Molly Bloom to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. A sexually active and funny working woman, the
Wife
of
Bath
, also known as Alison, talks explicitly about sexual pleasure. She is also a victim of domestic abuse who tells a story of rape and redemption. Formed from misogynist sources, she plays with stereotypes. Turner sets Alison's fictional story alongside the lives of real medieval women -- from a maid who travelled around Europe, abandoned her employer, and forged a new career in Rome to a duchess who married her fourth husband, a teenager, when she was sixty-five. Turner also tells the incredible story of Alison's post-medieval life, from seventeenth-century ballads and Polish communist pop art to her reclamation by postcolonial Black British women writers. Entertaining and enlightening, funny and provocative, The
Wife
of
Bath
is a one-of-a kind history of a literary and feminist icon who continues to capture the imagination of readers."--Publisher.
Genre:
Literary criticism.
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