Framing Fiction with Death: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Plague

Author / Editor
Lewis, Celia.

Title
Framing Fiction with Death: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Plague

Published
Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, eds. New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry (Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 139-64.

Description
Late-medieval preoccupation with mortality defies the solace of fiction. PhyT and PardT offer no hope of physical or spiritual life, and ParsT kills storytelling.

Alternative Title
New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.