Curious Labor in the "Miller's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Newhauser, Richard, and Michael Raby.
Curious Labor in the "Miller's Tale."
- Published
- ELH 86 (2019): 1-25.
- Description
- Contends that the confrontation between the carpenter John and the clerk Nicholas in MilT provides dramatic context for the exploration of anti-intellectualism and intellectual curiosity. Claims that in MilT it is the "combination of humor and skepticism in the confrontation of intellectual and manual labor, more than an insistence on either speculative inquiry or a rejection of 'curiositas,'
that marks Chaucer's particular contributions to the long history of medieval curiosity."
- Contributor
- Raby, Michael.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale