Orientalism and the Critical History of the Squire's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Bleeth, Kenneth (A.)
Orientalism and the Critical History of the Squire's Tale
- Published
- Kathryn Lynch, ed. Chaucer's Cultural Geography (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 21-31.
- Description
- Bleeth surveys critical responses to SqT for the ways they reflect assumptions about and attitudes toward the East as a cultural Other. Considers criticism from Thomas Warton (1778) through recent efforts to come to terms with and go beyond Edward Said's Orientalism (1978).
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Cultural Geography.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale.