The English "Loathly Lady" tales
Subtitle: boundaries, traditions, motifs
By: edited by S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter.
Contributors: Passmore, S. Elizabeth, 1963-; Carter, Susan, 1947-
Series: Studies in medieval culture -- 48
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781580441230; 9781580441247
Subjects: Gower, John, -- 1325?-1408; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400; English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Women in literature; Metamorphosis in literature; Counseling in literature; Sovereignty in literature; Gawain (Legendary character) -- Romances -- History and criticism; Romances, English -- History and criticism; Ballads, English -- England -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Through the counsel of a lady : the Irish and English Loathly Lady tales and the "Mirrors for princes" genre / S. Elizabeth Passmore; title: The politics of strengthe and vois in Gower's Loathly Lady tale / R.F. Yeager; title: Sovereignty through the lady : "The wife of Bath's tale" and the queenship of Anne of Bohemia / Elizabeth M. Biebel-Stanley; title: A hymenation of hags / Susan Carter; title: Folklore and powerful women in Gower's "Tale of Florent" / Russell A. Peck; title: Controlling the Loathly Lady, or, What really frees Dame Ragnelle / Paul Gaffney; title: "The marriage of Sir Gawain" : piecing the fragments together / Stephanie Hollis; title: A Jungian approach to the ballad "King Henry" / Mary Edwards Shaner; title: Repainting the lion : "The wife of Bath's tale" and a traditional British ballad / Lynn M. Wollstadt; title: Why Dame Ragnell had to die : feminine usurpation of male authority in "The wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell" / Mary Leech; title: Brains or beauty : limited sovereignty in the Loathly Lady tales "The wife of Bath's tale," "Thomas of Erceldoune," and "The wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle" / Ellen M. Caldwell.