EcoChaucer: Green Ethics and Medieval Nature
- Author / Editor
- Stanbury, Sarah.
EcoChaucer: Green Ethics and Medieval Nature
- Published
- Chaucer Review 39 (2004): 1-16.
- Description
- Depicting nature as an "active force," Chaucer encourages the reader to explore nature's "effects on social institutions and human drives." In so doing, he balances "a dis-enchanted skepticism about nature's benevolence" with "a canny understanding" of how institutions invoke "'the natural' to justify their own privileges."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.