The Island Garden: England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell
- Author / Editor
- Staley, Lynn.
The Island Garden: England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell
- Published
- Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.
- Physical Description
- x, 345 pp.
- Description
- Beginning with Gildas' depiction of England as a beautiful garden, explores metaphorical and physical gardens in medieval English cultural history, arguing that Chaucer indicates "awareness of nation as landscape" in CT. Chapters 2 and 3 emphasize that Chaucer employs Langland's peasant "croft, or half acre" as an image of nation in NPT, ClT, KnT, and PF. In Chapter 4, an analysis of the narrative of Susanna and the Elders (Daniel 13) cites ClT, MLT, and ParsT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Clerk and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale
- Parliament of Fowls
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Parson and His Tale