Selling Satire: Gower, Chaucer, and the End of the Estates.

Author / Editor
Ladd, Roger A.

Title
Selling Satire: Gower, Chaucer, and the End of the Estates.

Published
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 81-96.

Description
Examines how Chaucer and Gower handled the genre of "estates satire," and speculates how "their social critique moves away from an estates satire framework." Addresses mercantile practice in MerT, MLT, and WBT, and claims that Chaucer, like Gower, "is able to include substantial critique of economic practices in the actions" of characters in CT.

Alternative Title
Geoffrey Chaucer: Critical Insights Series

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Merchant and His Tale