The Diseased Soul in Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Poe
- Author / Editor
- Leavy, Barbara Fass.
The Diseased Soul in Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Poe
- Published
- Barbara Fass Leavy, To Blight with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme (New York and London: New York University Press, 1992), pp. 41-82.
- Description
- Assesses how and in what ways "disease of both body and soul" is a recurrent concern in CT, especially in fragment 6 which includes PhyT and PardT. Surmises that the fragment may have influenced Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year," and observes how Chaucer's treatment of plague differs from Boccaccio's in his "Decameron."
- Alternative Title
- To Blight with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Physician and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion