Individuality

Author / Editor
Blamires, Alcuin.

Title
Individuality

Published
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 478-95.

Description
Discusses representations of individuality in medieval literature, exploring concepts of "singularity" and the Chaucerian notion of "condicioun." Comments on BD, ClT, and the descriptions of the pilgrims in GP, along with a range of medieval works.

Alternative Title
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Clerk and His Tale