The Franklin’s Symptomatic "Sursanure."

Author / Editor
Travis, Peter W.

Title
The Franklin’s Symptomatic "Sursanure."

Published
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 151-65.

Description
Discusses FranT and its inclusion of the "sursanure", the superficially healed wound that nevertheless continues to fester. Suggests that this "sursanure" is "an exemplary Jamesonian symptom, the complex layerings of which invite readers to prise apart issues in the tale itself."

Alternative Title
Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale
Language and Word Studies