Ideology, Antisemitism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale

Author / Editor
Besserman, Lawrence L.

Title
Ideology, Antisemitism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale

Published
Chaucer Review 36: 48-72, 2001.

Description
Throughout the decades, Chaucer critics have argued their own biases in interpreting Chaucer's ideology--seeing Chaucer as a "Christian poet"; as a "poet first and foremost"; as an "atheist"; as a writer who was "politically incorrect." Eschewing close textual reading, modern theoretical critics provide "flawed and dangerous assumptions," often throwing critical scholarship "way off its true course."

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.