Orientation and Nation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.

Title
Orientation and Nation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Published
Kathryn Lynch, ed. Chaucer's Cultural Geography (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 102-34.

Description
Comments on such terms and concepts as "nacioun," "degree," "countre," race, and geography in KnT, SqT, MLT, and WBT, indicating that in CT the world is ordered by the principles of geography and nation. Nationalism is emergent in CT, but Orientalism is not.

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Cultural Geography.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.