Aspects of Subjectivity: Society and Individuality from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare and Milton
- Author / Editor
- Low, Anthony.
Aspects of Subjectivity: Society and Individuality from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare and Milton
- Published
- Pittsburgh, Penn. : Duquesne University Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- xxi, 242 pp.
- Series
- Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies
- Description
- Subjectivity and a sense of the importance of the inner self and the individual developed gradually from the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Nothing is altogether new in the stunning early-modernist sense of a vast, inner world of the self. What is new is the sense that the world within is more real than the world outside. Chaucer's Pardoner displays little awareness of his inner self. His despicable character and behavior make him a negative exemplar, whom Chaucer holds up for his audience's blame and execration.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.