Accounting for Affect in the "Reeve's Tale."

Author / Editor
Bryant, Brantley L.

Title
Accounting for Affect in the "Reeve's Tale."

Published
Glenn D. Burger and Holly A.Crocker, eds. Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 118-38.

Description
Argues that RvT reworks its fabliau sources alongside then-contemporary texts about manorial control and operation such as "Walter of Henley," and traces this depiction of an "affective economy." Analysis helps to foreground how the Reeve's manorial background can help illuminate the affective workings of his tale.

Alternative Title
Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale