Trade and Romance
- Author / Editor
- Murrin, Michael.
Trade and Romance
- Published
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- x, 327 pp.
- Description
- Traces the development, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, of a "new trend in western European literature," a concern with trade between Europe and "Farther Asia": i.e., from Iran and the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Focuses on romance and "the actualities behind what seem to be fantasies," and in Chapter 3, "The Squire's Tale: Romance as Mask," discusses SqT as a "composite romance" that addresses not only an aristocratic audience but also a commercial, "middling sort" of audience "masked" in the characters of the tale. Also includes an appendix concerned with critical reactions to SqT.
- Alternative Title
- "The Squire's Tale: Romance as Mask."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale