Accounting for Salvation in Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
O'Neill, Rosemary.

Title
Accounting for Salvation in Middle English Literature

Published
DAI A71.04 (2010): n.p.

Description
Discussing fiscal metaphors for the state of the soul in the Middle English period, O'Neill suggests that Ret is Chaucer's effort to escape "the imperatives of stewardship," evoking instead "a relationship of mutual intercession with his readers."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Retraction.