The Image of Paradise in the 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Bleeth, Kenneth A.

Title
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