On or about 1400.

Author / Editor
Nakley, Susan.

Title
On or about 1400.

Published
Matthew Stratton, ed. The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English (London: Routledge, 2023), pp. 172-82.

Description
Explores how "blame" links politics and literature in late medieval England, arguing that CT (especially MilP and Ret) "democratizes narrative authority and erodes authorial intention by redistributing doubt and confidence through blame," thereby "unsettl[ing] morality to enshrine vernacular literature as a public politics." Also considers blame in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the "York Play of the Crucifixion."

Contributor
Matthew Stratton, ed.

Alternative Title
The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tale--General
Language and Word Studies
Miller and His Tale
Chaucer's Retraction