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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Wife of Bath
    sub title: a biography
  name:
    name part: Turner, Marion
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Literary criticism.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
  abstract: "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 recognizably 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"--
  note: Marion Turner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Chaucer, Geoffrey
      name part: -1400
    topic: Characters
    topic: Wife of Bath
  subject:
    topic: Wife of Bath (Fictitious character)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Chaucer, Geoffrey
      name part: -1400
  subject:
    topic: Women in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Chaucer, Geoffrey
      name part: -1400
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Wife of Bath's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
  subject:
    topic: Wife of Bath (Fictitious character)
  subject:
    topic: Women in literature
  classification: PR1868.W593 T87 2023
  classification: 821/.1
  classification: LIT011000 BIO007000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Wife of bath
    name:
      name part: Turner, Marion, 1976-
    origin info:
      publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
    identifier: (DLC) 2022026578
  identifier: 9780691206011
  identifier: 0691206015
  identifier: 9780691206028
  identifier: 0691206023
  identifier: 2022026577
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220608
    record change date: 20230130144927.7
    record identifier: in00004645834
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng