Romancing Capital: The Gift in Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Wadiak, Walter Philip.

Title
Romancing Capital: The Gift in Middle English Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International A69.01 (2008): n.p.

Description
Wadiak considers how Middle English romances focus on "giving and spending" as a questioning of the emergent capitalistic system, examining romances from "King Horn" through KnT and arguing that these works simultaneously shape and reflect the move from feudalism to capitalism.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale