Beauty
- Author / Editor
- Nolan, Maura.
Beauty
- Published
- Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 207-21.
- Description
- Nolan argues that the description of Alison in MilT is Chaucer's means to "stage an investigation or exploration of the relationship of beauty to individual perspectives . . . and the idea of a universal aesthetic." The passage also confronts the "problem" of the usefulness of beauty.
- Alternative Title
- Middle English (Strohm)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.