Geographies of Love: Orientalism in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila.

Title
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.