Chaucer's Yeoman's Wasting Body: Pollution and Contagion.
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Eleanor.
Chaucer's Yeoman's Wasting Body: Pollution and Contagion.
- Published
- Eleanor Johnson. Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023), pp. 102-25.
- Description
- Reads CYP in the context of late medieval English concerns about waste as "ecosystemic misconduct par excellence," linking to the plague the Canon's Yeoman's social contagion and the damage done to him by his working environment. Explicates the lexical, sonic, and rhythmic nature of the Yeoman's lists to show how they evoke "ecosystemic danger" in "weird" and "wonderful" ways.
- Alternative Title
- Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
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