The Image of Paradise in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Bleeth, Kenneth A.
The Image of Paradise in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 45-60.
- Description
- Examines various evocations of paradise as a garden in MerT as parodic inversions of Christian understanding of the scene of the Fall.
- Alternative Title
- Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations