Naturalism and Its Discontents in the Miller's Tale

Author / Editor
Miller, Mark.

Title
Naturalism and Its Discontents in the Miller's Tale

Published
ELH 67: 1-44, 2000.

Description
Discusses what naturalism is and how it links a set of normative intuitions about gender and desire to a broader theory of what it means for humans to be a law to themselves. Central to MilT is Alisoun, the "single most compelling instance of a desirable natural object." In MilT, Chaucer explores responses to the problems posed by normativity and the implications of such responses.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.