Contesting Individuality: Pryvetee and Self-Profession in "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Mueller, Luke.

Title
Contesting Individuality: Pryvetee and Self-Profession in "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Comitatus 47 (2016): 189-208.

Description
Explores how Chaucer's characters in CT challenge the medieval social norm of community over "pryvetee" by telling tales that expose others' "pryvetee and obscure their own; by profession as a means of asserting individual power over one's pryvetee; and by uncontrollable speech. Refers to GP, MerT, WBPT, PardT, FrT, SumT, NPT, and ManT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Language and Word Studies
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Merchant and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Friar and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Manciple and His Tale