Chaucer's Fantasy of Pity.

Author / Editor
Irvin, Matthew W.

Title
Chaucer's Fantasy of Pity.

Published
Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 379-96.

Description
Examines pity and the construction of pity in KnT in particular to show how Chaucer's use of and changes to the "Teseida "produce a desire for female autonomy that doesn’t threaten male patriarchy.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations