Wife of Bath (eBook)

A Biography

Marion Turner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20602-8 (ISBN)

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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 obsessed readersfrom 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 womenfrom 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.1.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 14 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: affair • Alice Perrers • Ancrene Wisse • Anne Barton • Anne Elliot • art film • author • Barbara Newman • Bartholomew Roberts • Becky Sharp • Beith (letter) • bernardine evaristo • blanche of lancaster • Bourgeoisie • Bridget Jones's Diary • brothel • Caitlin Moran • Candide • Carolyn Dinshaw • Cecily of York • Charivari • Chelsea Manning • Christine de Pizan • Clare Perkins • Concubinage • Confessio Amantis • connotation • courtesan • Crist • Crone • Cuirass • Dames • Diane Abbott • Disease • Dowager • dowry • Elizabeth Bennet • elizabeth woodville • Eochaid Mugmedon • Epilogue • E's • Etiquette • Fabliau • Falstaff's Wedding • Feminism • Fili • Flagellation • Flushing (physiology) • French poetry • Gawain • gloria naylor • Guinevere • Helen Nissenbaum • Her Brother • Heroides • Hilary Mantel • Hippolyta • Housewife • husband • Incipit • Jane Eyre • Jean de Meun • Jean Gerson • John Gower • Julie Walters • Lady • lady-in-waiting • Laisse • Laura Betti • Lingua (play) • Literature • Loathly lady • Madame de Pompadour • Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby • Margery Kempe • marriage • Mary Beard (classicist) • Mary Douglas • Meditations • misogyny • Molly Bloom • mother • Mrs Dalloway • Pamphlet • panache • pastourelle • Patience Agbabi • Pension • Persuasion • Persuasion (novel) • Peter the Venerable • Philippa of Hainault • Philosophy • Philosophy of Love • Philostrate • pippi longstocking • Poetry • Poissy • Politician • Princess Fiona • procession • Prose • proverb • purity and danger • Queen of Heaven • Querelle • Regime • Religiosity • Remarriage • Richeldis de Faverches • Roman de la Rose • Ruler • Scarlett O'Hara • Sexual Desire (book) • Shakespeare's Plays • Shelley Williams • soliloquy • stepmother • Superiority (short story) • Sylvia Plath • Tarleton Gillespie • The Book of Margery Kempe • the book of the duchess • The Decameron • The Handmaid's Tale • The Legend of Good Women • The Merry Wives of Windsor • The Miller's Tale • The Mirror and The Light • The Parson's Tale • The Treasure of the City of Ladies • The Wife of Bath's Tale • The Wife's Lament • To the lighthouse • treatise • Troilus and Cressida • Troilus and Criseyde • two women • University Press of Kentucky • vagina dentata • Vera Chapman • Virginia Woolf • virginity • Voting • widow • William Shakespeare • witchy • woman on top • Woolf • Work–Life Balance • Wynkyn de Worde • Zadie Smith
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20602-3 / 0691206023
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20602-8 / 9780691206028