Damaged Goods: Merchandise, Stories and Gender in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale."

Author / Editor
Cady, Diane.

Title
Damaged Goods: Merchandise, Stories and Gender in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale."

Published
New Medieval Literatures 17 (2017): 115-49.

Description
Explores medieval analogies between "storytelling and merchandizing" and how both relate to gender in MLT, clarifying connections between the travel narrative, its rhetoric, and the poverty prologue, and commenting on source and analogue relations. Also links the "aversion to incest" in MLP with "anxieties about poetic property," attributing the latter to Chaucer rather than to the Man of Law.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations