Give the Saint Her Due: Hagiographical Values for Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and Graham Greene's The End of the Affair

Author / Editor
Tobin, Ann Lee.

Title
Give the Saint Her Due: Hagiographical Values for Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and Graham Greene's The End of the Affair

Published
Studia Mystica 14:2-3 (1991): 48-60.

Description
Chaucer's Saint Cecilia and Greene's Sarah Miles are both perceived as rude, disrespectful, and unbelievable. Their behavior and narratives can be appreciated only in the context of the hagiographical tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.