The Diseased Soul in Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Poe

Author / Editor
Leavy, Barbara Fass.

Title
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