Chaucer's Tale of the Second Nun and the Strategies of Dissent

Author / Editor
Johnson, Lynn Staley.

Title
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.