Companies, Mysteries, and Foreign Exchange: Chaucer's Currency for the Modern Reader

Author / Editor
Reale, Nancy M.

Title
Companies, Mysteries, and Foreign Exchange: Chaucer's Currency for the Modern Reader

Published
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. "The Canterbury Tales" Revisited--21st Century Interpretations (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 256-80.

Description
Chaucer's CT, particularly GP, offers "as its 'utilitarian' value or 'worth' exemplary lessons on constructing social identity in the context of an emergent market system." This "bold step paved the way for modern ways of understanding the self," sensitizing readers to the importance of "language and appearance" in constructions of self.

Alternative Title
"Canterbury Tales" Revisited-21st Century Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales