Carterbury Tales : Romances of Disenchantment in Geoffrey Chaucer and Angela Carter

Author / Editor
Pireddu, Nicoletta.

Title
Carterbury Tales : Romances of Disenchantment in Geoffrey Chaucer and Angela Carter

Published
Comparatist 21: 117-48, 1997.

Description
Compares Chaucer's manipulation of romance conventions with Carter's postmodern use of romance to challenge rationalist discourse. In its portrayal of mercantile challenge to feudal aristocracy, CT is a medieval modernist text.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion .