"The Franklin's Tale": The Generous Father and the Spendthrift Son.
- Author / Editor
- Carney, Clíodhna.
"The Franklin's Tale": The Generous Father and the Spendthrift Son.
- Published
- Hodder O'Connell and Brendan O'Connell, eds. Transmission and Generation in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2012), pp. 89-101.
- Description
- Regards the Squire as the "son-substitute" of the Franklin, and reads FranT, with a nod to Freud, as a projection of the narrator's idealized and decontextualized attitudes toward money, generosity, gentility, and virtue that reveals a subtle thematic concern with interactions between self-interest and group-interest.
- Contributor
- Hodder O'Connell, ed.
Brendan O'Connell, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Transmission and Generation in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Honour of John Scattergood.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Squire and His Tale