The wife of Bath: a biography
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...
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Zusammenfassung: | 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 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 |
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adam_text | Contents List ofIllustrations ix Introduction i PART I. MEDIEVAL WIVES OF BATH: ORDINARY WOMEN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE Prologue. ‘Beaten for a Book’: Literary Form and Lived Experience 13 Chapter 1. The Invention of Character 20 Chapter 2. Working Women 48 Chapter 3. The Marriage Market 69 Chapter 4. The Female Storyteller 87 Chapter 5. The Wandering Woman 113 part ii. alison’s afterlife, 1400-2021 Prologue. ‘Now Merrier and Extra Mature’ 139 Chapter 6. Silencing Alison 143 vii
viii CONTENTS Chapter 7. When Shakespeare Met Alison lA Chapter 8. Alison Abroad iç Chapter 9. Alison and the Novel 2- Chapter 10. Black Alisons: Wives of Brixton, Bafa, and Willesden 227 Acknowledgements 24- Notes 25. Bibliography 28« Index 301
Ever 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 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. :ually active and funny working the Wife of Bath, also known as talks explicitly about sexual pleale is also a victim of domestic abuse ells a story of rape and redemp^ormed from misogynist sources, ¡ays with stereotypes. Turner sets ťs fictional story alongside the of real medieval women—from id who travelled around Europe, ioned her employer, and forged a areer in Rome to a duchess who d her fourth husband, a teenager, he was sixty-five. Turner also tells credible story of Alison’s post(val life, from seventeenth-century ds and Polish communist pop art :o her reclamation by postcolonial Black British women writers. Í
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Contents List ofIllustrations ix Introduction i PART I. MEDIEVAL WIVES OF BATH: ORDINARY WOMEN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE Prologue. ‘Beaten for a Book’: Literary Form and Lived Experience 13 Chapter 1. The Invention of Character 20 Chapter 2. Working Women 48 Chapter 3. The Marriage Market 69 Chapter 4. The Female Storyteller 87 Chapter 5. The Wandering Woman 113 part ii. alison’s afterlife, 1400-2021 Prologue. ‘Now Merrier and Extra Mature’ 139 Chapter 6. Silencing Alison 143 vii
viii CONTENTS Chapter 7. When Shakespeare Met Alison lA Chapter 8. Alison Abroad iç Chapter 9. Alison and the Novel 2- Chapter 10. Black Alisons: Wives of Brixton, Bafa, and Willesden 227 Acknowledgements 24- Notes 25. Bibliography 28« Index 301
Ever 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 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. :ually active and funny working the Wife of Bath, also known as talks explicitly about sexual pleale is also a victim of domestic abuse ells a story of rape and redemp^ormed from misogynist sources, ¡ays with stereotypes. Turner sets ťs fictional story alongside the of real medieval women—from id who travelled around Europe, ioned her employer, and forged a areer in Rome to a duchess who d her fourth husband, a teenager, he was sixty-five. Turner also tells credible story of Alison’s post(val life, from seventeenth-century ds and Polish communist pop art :o her reclamation by postcolonial Black British women writers. Í |
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