Innocence and Innocents in Middle English Literature and Its Reception
- Author / Editor
- Knutson, Karla.
Innocence and Innocents in Middle English Literature and Its Reception
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International A70.06 (2009): n.p.
- Description
- Knutson examines medieval ideas of innocence associated with penitential forgiveness in CT, "Pearl," and medieval pageant plays, suggesting that a later concept of innocence—a lack of "knowledge or experience"—shaped William Godwin's and Mary Eliza Haweis's representations of Chaucer as an innocent primitive with "authoritative" talent.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Chaucer's Life