The Parson's Predilection for Pleasure

Author / Editor
Smith, Nicole D.

Title
The Parson's Predilection for Pleasure

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 117-40.

Description
The indictment of fashionable male clothing in ParsT (10.422-30, "Superbia") is a "homoerotic moment" reflecting the Parson's own "scopophilic" pleasure, although the "turn to the fashionable female neutralizes any homoerotic tendency."

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.