The Economics of Justice in Chaucer's Miller's and Reeve's Tales
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Elizabeth.
The Economics of Justice in Chaucer's Miller's and Reeve's Tales
- Published
- Dalhousie Review 82.1 : 91-112, 2002.
- Description
- Assesses payment and revenge in MilT and RvT as economies of sexual exchange following Aristotelian notions of "distributive" justice, reflected in the "poetic" justice of the Tales. Women are the commodity in MilT and RvT, as in KnT and CkT. Edwards assesses plenty and scarcity in light of Georges Bataille's "expenditure" theory.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.