The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Blurton, Heather, and Hannah Johnson.
The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale."
- Published
- Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.
- Physical Description
- 218 pp.
- Description
- Explores the anti-Semitism of PrT, producing "a discussion animated by the ways in which antisemitism has emerged as the problematic that organizes scholarly response," and resists dismissing or excusing prejudice and hate in PrT. Tracks history of PrT criticism, its sources and the potentially problematic methodology of traditional source studies, the history of antifeminism linked to anti-Semitism in criticism of PrT, and the reception of PrT in the fifteenth century. Combines a detailed history and analysis of criticism to "help scholars break free of some old patterns and seek out fresh modes of engagement" regarding the understanding and teaching of PrT.
- Contributor
- Johnson, Hannah.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale