Reading for the Moral: The Ethics of Exemplarity in Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Mitchell, John Allan.

Title
Reading for the Moral: The Ethics of Exemplarity in Middle English Literature

Published
DAI 64) : 155A, 2002.

Description
Considers moral casuistry in Gower and CT, arguing that Chaucer and Gower pose for the reader's discovery "practical precepts" that rely on the "rhetoric of exemplarity and the deliberation of readers," rather than relying on hard-and-fast religious or ideological structures.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.