Pacifism and English Literature: Minstrels of Peace
- Author / Editor
- White, R. S.
Pacifism and English Literature: Minstrels of Peace
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Physical Description
- vii, 299 pp.
- Description
- White explores the role of literature in "peace studies," traces pacifist theory through the ages, and surveys pacifism in English literature from the Middle Ages to modern prose, poetry, and film. The chapter on the Middle Ages comments on Old English tradition, Anglo-Norman tradition, and works by Gower, Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Chaucer (especially Mel and KnT).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Tale of Melibee