Networks of Exchange in "The Franklin's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Thormann, Janet.
Networks of Exchange in "The Franklin's Tale."
- Published
- postmedieval 3 (2012): 212-26.
- Description
- Argues that the narrator and the characters of FranT pursue an ideal of social harmony based on "trouthe," but they produce a "collective fiction" in which "competing forms of exchange"--marriage, promises, and money--disclose tensions that must remain hidden in order to function.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale