Being Green in Late Medieval English Literature.

Author / Editor
Rudd, Gillian.

Title
Being Green in Late Medieval English Literature.

Published
In Greg Garrard, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 27-39.

Description
Comments on forerunners of ecocritical thinking in medieval literature, and explores the connotations of "green" (often in contrast with "blue") in Wom Unc, SqT, FrT, WBT, and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," arguing that medieval usage reflects a "system of . . . values . . . which prizes changeability and an ability to adapt."

Contributor
Garrard, Greg, ed.

Alternative Title
The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Friar and His Tale
Squire and His Tale
Against Women Unconstant