Chaucer's Gifts: Exchange and Value in the "Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Epstein, Robert.
Chaucer's Gifts: Exchange and Value in the "Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- xi, 249 pp.
- Description
- Explores the "gift economy" and commercial culture of CT, and applies gift theory and economic anthropology to medieval literary criticism. Examines "gender of the gift," exchange of women, and gifts in GP. Chapter 6 focuses on the Franklin's gifts in FranT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Franklin and His Tale