'No Man His Reson Herde': Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer's Miller, and the Structure of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Patterson, Lee.
'No Man His Reson Herde': Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer's Miller, and the Structure of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- South Atlantic Quarterly 86 (1987): 457-95.
- Description
- Although Chaucer was associated with the aristocratic seigniorial and mercantile classes, in the first eight tales he vigorously asserts the aggressive voice of peasant protest--fully in MilT but reverting to a somewhat more traditional and conservative social ideology in RvT, CkT, WBT, FrT, and SumT.
- Reprinted in the author's Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), pp. 113-55.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Practice and Social Change, 1380-1530.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.