Chaucer's Tale of the Second Nun and the Strategies of Dissent
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Lynn Staley.
Chaucer's Tale of the Second Nun and the Strategies of Dissent
- Published
- Studies in Philology 89 (1992): 314-33.
- Description
- Reads SNT as paralleling Wycliffite dissent, arguing that Chaucer's alterations of his sources emphasize Cecilia's challenges to institutional values and power.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.