Sadism and Sentimentality: Absorbing Antisemitism in Chaucer's Prioress

Author / Editor
Price, Merrall Llewelyn.

Title
Sadism and Sentimentality: Absorbing Antisemitism in Chaucer's Prioress

Published
ChauR 43 (2008): 197-214.

Description
Read as symptoms of a "childlike" individual "dealing with a number of psychosexual developmental issues," the Prioress's personal habits and narrative performance register anxiety not only about boundaries of the individual human body but also about "the dangerous porosity of religious, social, and community identity that it represents."

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale