Chaucer and the Politics of Nature

Author / Editor
Kiser, Lisa J.

Title
Chaucer and the Politics of Nature

Published
Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace, eds. Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2001), pp. 41-56.

Description
Through the tree catalog and the "unassimilated voices of the lower birds" in PF, Chaucer records his awareness that distinctions between nature and culture and between human and nonhuman are "species-ist"--an awareness similar to modern environmental and ecological perspectives.

Contributor
Armbruster, Karla, ed.
Wallace, Kathleen R., ed.

Alternative Title
Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.