Middle English Marvels: Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century.
- Author / Editor
- Williams, Tara.
Middle English Marvels: Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century.
- Published
- University Park: Penn State University Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- viii, 176 pp.
- Description
- Presents a multidisciplinary "theory of the marvelous" in Middle English literature. Focuses on how fourteenth-century texts, including CT, "represent a coherent and previously unrecognized theory of the marvelous, one focused on the intersection of the magical, the spectacular, and the moral." Discusses how Chaucer's focus on morality in CT, with special emphasis in WBT and SqT, also represents his "spectacles of language."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Squire and His Tale