'To Alisoun now wol I tellen al my love-longing': Chaucer's Treatment of the Courtly Love Discourse in The Miller's Tale

Author / Editor
Forbes, Shannon.

Title
'To Alisoun now wol I tellen al my love-longing': Chaucer's Treatment of the Courtly Love Discourse in The Miller's Tale

Published
Women's Studies 36.1 (2007): 1-14.

Description
In MilT, Alison resists Absolon's efforts to compel her to perform courtly behavior and chooses her "own predicates" of behavior, thus establishing her identity and coercing Absolon to abandon his failed courtly role.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale