Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake

By Betsy Bowden

This study investigates interpretation of a late-fourteenth-century fictional character in both verbal and visual art of the period 1660-1810. Audiovisual analysis and diachronic afterlife studies intertwine concerning the Wife of Bath in songs, scholarship, commentary, poetic paraphrases, musical theater in London and on the Continent, paintings, and book illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611462436
• ISBN13: 9781611462432
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"