Shame and guilt in Chaucer
By: Anne McTaggart
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780230337381
Subjects: Guilt in literature; Shame in literature; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shame and guilt, now and then; title: Shamed guiltless in Chaucer's pagan antiquity; title: Honor, purity, and sacrifice in The knight's tale and The physician's tale; title: Structures of reciprocity in Chaucerian romance; title: The ills of illocution: shame, guilt, and confession in The pardoner's tale and The parson's tale; title: Conclusion: Chaucer and medieval shame culture.