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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2003
Online ISBN:
9780511803321
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803321
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
Series:
Landmarks of World Literature (New)
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Book description

This introductory guide places the Canterbury Tales in the context of the crisis in English society in the fourteenth century. It examines the social diversity of Chaucer's pilgrims, the stylistic range of their tales and the psychological richness of their interaction. The volume offers students a clear image of the powerful representation of the social reality that makes the Canterbury Tales one of the most important texts in English literature. Emphasis is placed on the language of the poem, the place of Chaucer in subsequent literary tradition, and an entire chapter is devoted to the General Prologue which is widely studied on undergraduate courses. Finally, the volume offers a helpful chronology of the period and an invaluable guide to further reading.

Reviews

'Written in a lucid and elegant style, Wetherbee's book has lost nothing of its worth during the fifteen years that have elapsed since it was first published. It provides a useful and thought-provoking commentary to the Tales not only for university students or general readers but also for specialists.'

Source: Anglia

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Contents

Contents
References
Guide to further reading
Guide to further reading
Additional reading
Ann W. Astell, Chaucer and the Universe of Learning (Ithaca, NY, 1996).
Benson, Larry D., “The Order of the Canterbury Tales”, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 3 (1981), 77–120.
Betsy Bowden, Chaucer Aloud: The Varieties of Textual Interpretation (Philadelphia, 1987).
Christopher Cannon, The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words (Cambridge, 1998).
Helen Cooper, The Structure of the Canterbury Tales (London, 1983).
Susan Crane, Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Princeton, 1994).
W. A. Davenport, Chaucer and his English Contemporaries: Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales (New York, 1998).
Alfred David, The Strumpet Muse: Art and Morals in Chaucer's Poetry (Bloomington, IN, 1976).
E. T. Donaldson, Speaking of Chaucer (selected essays, London, 1970).
Warren Ginsburg, Chaucer's Italian Tradition (Ann Arbor, MI, 2002).
G. L. Kittredge, Chaucer and his Poetry (Cambridge, MA, 1915).
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Shildgen, eds., The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, NJ, 2000).
Seth Lerer, Chaucer and his Readers: Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England (Princeton, 1993).
Middleton, Anne, “The Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II”, Speculum 53 (1978), 94–114.
“War by Other Means: Marriage and Chivalry in Chaucer”, Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Proceedings, No. 1 (1984), 119–33.
V. J. Scattergood and J. W. Sherborne, eds., English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages (London, 1983).
Ann Thompson, Shakespeare's Chaucer (Liverpool, 1978).

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