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 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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