The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer, Edited by Peter G. Beidler - First Edition, 1996 from Macmillan Student Store

The Wife of Bath

First  Edition©1996  Geoffrey Chaucer, Edited by Peter G. Beidler

ISBN:9780312111281

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As part of Bedford/St. Martin's inventive Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series, this edition of The Wife of Bath is accompanied by carefully seclected critical essays which approach the book from several contemporary critical perspectives.

Table of Contents

  About the Series
  About This Volume
    
PART I. THE WIFE OF BATH: THE COMPLETE TEXT
    
  Biographical and Historical Contexts
    
  Introduction to the Text
    
  The Complete Text
    Description of the Wife of Bath from the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
    The Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale
    The Wife of Bath's Tale
    
PART II. THE WIFE OF BATH: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
    
  A Critical History of the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    
  New Historicism and the Wife of Bath
    What Is New Historicism?
    New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography
    A New Historicist Perspective:
       Lee Patterson, "Experience woot well is it noght so": Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    
  Marxist Criticism and the Wife of Bath
    What Is Marxist Criticism?
    Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Marxist Perspective:
       Laurie Finke, "All is for to selle": Breeding Capital in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    
  Psychoanalytic Criticism and the Wife of Bath
    What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?
    Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Psychoanalytic Perspective:
       Louise O. Fradenburg, "Fulfild of fairye": The Social Meaning of Fantasy in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    
  Deconstructive Criticism and the Wife of Bath
    What Is Deconstruction?
    Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
    A Deconstructionist Perspective:
       H. Marshall Leicester, Jr., "My bed was ful of verray blood": Subject, Dream, and Rape in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    
  Feminist Criticism and the Wife of Bath
    What Is Feminist Criticism?
    Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Feminist Perspective:
       Elaine Tuttle Hansen, "Of his love daungerous to me": Liberation, Subversion, and Domestic Violence in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    
  Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
    
  About the Contributors

Geoffrey Chaucer

Peter G. Beidler

Peter G. Beidler is the Lucy G. Moses Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.  He has published more than one hundred articles on Chaucer, Native American fiction, and American literature.  Among his more than two dozen books and book-length editing projects is Ghost, Demons, and Henry James: "The Turn of the Screw" at the Turn of the Century (1989).  More recently he coauthored A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich (1999, with Gay Barton), and his most recent book, A Reader's Companion to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (2009).  He taught as a Fulbright professor in China 1987-88.  In 1983 the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation named Beidler National Professor of the Year .  He spent the 1995-96 academic year as the Robert Foster Cherry Visiting Distinguished Teaching Professor at Baylor University, and he has won a number of teaching awards.