From Hero to Trope: Chaucer's Dissolution of the Medieval Child Subject

Author / Editor
Couch, Julie Nelson.

Title
From Hero to Trope: Chaucer's Dissolution of the Medieval Child Subject

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3554A, 2001.

Description
Chaucer's representations of the child as pathetic and passive (in Th and PrT) contrasts with images of children in romance ("Havelock the Dane") and miracle tales ("Child Slain by Jews" and "The Jewish Boy"). Chaucer "canonizes" this negative view of children.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Prioress and Her Tale.
Tale of Sir Thopas.