Chaucerian Ecopoetics

Shawn Normandin is Associate Professor of English at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.

• 1. Introduction: Chaucer and Ecopoetics.- 2. Ecophobia and the Knight’s Tale.- 3. Nocturnal Ecologies: Metaphor in the Miller’s Tale and the Reeve’s Tale.- 4. Iterability, Anthropocentrism, and the Franklin’s Tale.- 5. The Unnatural Personifications of the Physician’s Tale.-  6. Ruminating On and In the Monk’s Tale.

“This volume offers much for the Chaucerian critic committed to or simply intrigued by ecocritical approaches to literature. Normandin makes … appreciated tales vital to our understanding not just of Chaucer's time period, but our own.” (Susan Morrison, The Medieval Review, scholarworks.iu.edu, June 28, 2019)