Devil Take the Hindmost: Chaucer, John Gay, and the Pecuniary Anus
- Author / Editor
- Beechy, Tiffany.
Devil Take the Hindmost: Chaucer, John Gay, and the Pecuniary Anus
- Published
- Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 71-85.
- Description
- Studying SumT with John Gay's 1717 poem "An Answer to the Sompner's Prologue of Chaucer" reveals a continuum of greed in SumT, moving from goods of use value, to coins of exchange value, to excrement and insubstantial air, even as Chaucer satirizes social acceptance of such abstracted value in place of real goods.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.