The Wife of Bath
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Book • 2023
Marion Turner's 'The Wife of Bath: A Biography' traces the creation, historical context, and long reception history of Chaucer’s most famous character, Alison of Bath.
Turner combines close reading of the Canterbury Tales with archival research into medieval women's lives to reconstruct the social realities that shaped the character.
The book also follows how the Wife of Bath has been interpreted, adapted, censored, and celebrated from the medieval period to the modern era.
Turner uses the biography form experimentally to let the fictional character ‘travel’ across time and to anchor her story in real historical voices and events.
The work situates the Wife of Bath as both rooted in her fourteenth-century moment and as a transhistorical figure taken up by diverse writers and artists.
Turner combines close reading of the Canterbury Tales with archival research into medieval women's lives to reconstruct the social realities that shaped the character.
The book also follows how the Wife of Bath has been interpreted, adapted, censored, and celebrated from the medieval period to the modern era.
Turner uses the biography form experimentally to let the fictional character ‘travel’ across time and to anchor her story in real historical voices and events.
The work situates the Wife of Bath as both rooted in her fourteenth-century moment and as a transhistorical figure taken up by diverse writers and artists.
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