Chaucer's Conception of Nature

Author / Editor
Ando, Shinsuke.

Title
Chaucer's Conception of Nature

Published
Key-Word Studies in "Beowulf" and Chaucer 1 (1980): 49-57.

Description
Chaucer's Nature, when the term is explicitly used, is an "idee fixe" essentially based on the orthodox medieval conception. The writer, however, examines the interest and attitude with which Chaucer represented the various aspects of humanity, and recognizes in him a certain embryo of what may be termed modern Naturalism.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.