Chaucer’s Feminine Subjects

1. Introduction: Chaucer’s Feminine Subjects: Feminism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis
John A. Pitcher

2. Figures of Desire in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
John A. Pitcher

3. The Rhetoric of Desire in The Franklin’s Tale
John A. Pitcher

4. The Martyr’s Purpose: The Rhetoric of Disavowal in The Clerk’s Tale
John A. Pitcher

5. Chaucer’s Wolf: Exemplary Violence in The Physician’s Tale
John A. Pitcher

6. Afterword: A Question of Politics
John A. Pitcher

Keywords: Literature, Medieval Literature, Literary Theory, Gender Studies, Feminism, Classical and Antique Literature, Psychoanalysis