"Hoolynesse or Dotage": The Merchant's January.

Author / Editor
White, Gertrude M.

Title
"Hoolynesse or Dotage": The Merchant's January.

Published
Philological Quarterly 44 (1965): 397-404.

Description
Assesses the "chilling savagery" of the Merchant's attitude toward January in MerT as well as January's materialism, sensualism, and self-delusion, arguing that the character generates a kind of pathos that verges on the tragic.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale