Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Author / Editor
Jankowski, Eileen S.

Title
Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Published
Chaucer Review 36: 128-48, 2001.

Description
Although SNT has been considered a straightforward account of St. Cecilia, apocalyptic techniques make it more complex. Engaging apocalyptic imagination, Chaucer focuses on "eschatology, renovation, and the collapse of time."

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.