The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art.
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Andy.
The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art.
- Published
- New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
- Physical Description
- x, 225 pp.
- Description
- Explores how tree climbers have been represented in European and North American literature and art, including discussion of MerT in a section on "questionable gendered attitudes about women climbing trees," traced back to the biblical Garden of Eden. Links Chaucer's tree-climbing scene with several analogues in modern literature, and comments on book illustrations of Chaucer's episode by Warwick Goble (1912) and Dame Elizabeth Frink (1972).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations