Geographies of Love: Orientalism in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
Geographies of Love: Orientalism in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 1-32.
- Description
- Examines late-fourteenth-century English attitudes toward crusading as background for Chaucer's view of the Orient as a form of the "Other." Evident in LGW, Chaucer's views reflect the prejudices of his age, which regarded Orientals as irredeemable.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.