Private Practices in Chaucer's Miller's Tale

Author / Editor
Bullón-Fernández, María.

Title
Private Practices in Chaucer's Miller's Tale

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 141-74.

Description
Explores links between privacy and urban spaces in Fragment 1 of CT, especially MilT, in which each of the major male characters fails to control his own "pryvetee." The article follows Pierre Bourdieu in conceptualizing the practices of privacy as a developing "habitus," exploring concerns with bodies, buildings, commerce, estate, and class competition among the characters and tellers of Part 1.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.
Knight and His Tale.
Reeve and His Tale.
Cook and His Tale.