Chaucer, the Merchant, and Their Tale: Getting Beyond Old Controversies: Part II
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson,Jr.
Chaucer, the Merchant, and Their Tale: Getting Beyond Old Controversies: Part II
- Published
- Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 247-62.
- Description
- In the Merchant and MerT Chaucer objectifies his own cultural bias against women and his own interest in financial profit. The Merchant is like January (Janus was the god of merchants), and Chaucer (born into a family of merchants) is like the Merchant.
- However, through the portrayal of this cynical character Chaucer reaches a certain self-understanding, and expresses with it a keen awareness that antifeminism and crass mercantilism vitiate human love.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.