Orientalism and the Critical History of the Squire's Tale

Author / Editor
Bleeth, Kenneth (A.)

Title
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.