"Hoolynesse or Dotage": The Merchant's January.
- Author / Editor
- White, Gertrude M.
"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