Images of Adolescence in English Literature : The Middle Ages to the Modern Period
- Author / Editor
- Violato, Claudio,and Arthur J. Wiley.
Images of Adolescence in English Literature : The Middle Ages to the Modern Period
- Published
- Adolescence 25 (1990): 253-64.
- Description
- Studies images of youth and adolescence in eleven major authors, including Chaucer, showing that adolescence is portrayed as a time of "turbulence, excess, and passion." Chaucer's GP Squire fits the pattern.
- Contributor
- Wiley, Arthur J.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Squire and His Tale.