Dwelling with Humans and Nonhumans: Neighboring Ethics in "The Franklin's Tale."

Author / Editor
Houlik-Ritchey, Emily.

Title
Dwelling with Humans and Nonhumans: Neighboring Ethics in "The Franklin's Tale."

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 107-39.

Description
Proposes a "theoretical conjunction" between "an ecological love for the non-identical and ethical theories of love for the neighbor," exploring in light of neighbor theory Dorigen's relationships in FranT with Arveragus, with Aurelius, and with the black rocks, and commenting on the implications of to "dwellen," strangeness, Dorigen being “astonied,” ecocriticism, new materialism, and posthumanist ontologies.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale
Language and Word Studies