Chaucer and the Idols of the Market
- Author / Editor
- DeVries, David N.
Chaucer and the Idols of the Market
- Published
- Chaucer Review 32 (1998): 391-99.
- Description
- Despite David Wallace's assertion that London is "absent" in Chaucer, and D. W. Robertson's contention that medieval Londoners were content within "an hierarchical classless society," CT depicts London as an "underworld," where unscrupulous characters tell unreliable tales.
- Chaucer's London is, in fact, a mercantile place that "mirrors in a perverse image the order of the ideal."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.