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- Title
"Rowned She a Pistel": National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer's Wife of Bath.
- Authors
Nakley, Susan
- Abstract
An essay is presented on how Christian nobility crystallizes as a specific form of class-crossing national identity in the book "Wife of Bath's Tale," the only Arthurian romance by Geoffrey Chaucer. The author explores the redefinition of English nobility as a national form of identity and the use of internationalism as a technique to subvert the aristocratic identity with cross-class/cross-gender national identity in the book.
- Subjects
NATIONALISM in literature; NOBILITY (Social class) in literature; NOBILITY of character in literature; CANTERBURY Tales. The Wife of Bath's Tale; CHAUCER, Geoffrey, d. 1400; INTERNATIONALISM in literature; ARISTOCRACY (Social class)
- Publication
Journal of English & Germanic Philology, 2015, Vol 114, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
0363-6941
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5406/jenglgermphil.114.1.0061