Margery Kempe: Social Critic
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Lynn Staley.
Margery Kempe: Social Critic
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22 (1992): 159-84.
- Description
- Like Chaucer, Margery Kempe constructs a narrative context for the self she creates. Kempe uses autobiographical details to shape "Margery" into a representative type and to analyze communal values and practices. Kempe employs Chaucer's strategy of making pointed criticisms through negative constructions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.