Trade Secrets: Chaucer, the Pardoner, the Critics
- Author / Editor
- Gross, Gregory W.
Trade Secrets: Chaucer, the Pardoner, the Critics
- Published
- Modern Language Studies 25:4 (1995): 1-36.
- Description
- Characterizing the critics as essentialist, Gross traces views of the Pardoner's sexuality, beginning with Kittredge's and Curry's interests in secrecy and moral scapegoating.
- After establishing the medieval relationship of idolatry and sodomy, Gross concludes that the Pardoner makes "unnatural," "unproductive" use of both his sexuality and his knowledge of rhetoric.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.