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Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)

By Peggy Knapp

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2011
ISBN
9780203828816, 9780415616034
LCC
PR1875.S63 -- K56 1990eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1488249 bytes)
Series
Routledge Revivals Series
Edition
1
Pages
173\0
Time added
2023-08-24 09:49:21
-- d. 1400 -- Political and social views. ; Christ-- d. 1400. -- Canterbury tales. ; Chaucer500-1500. ; Literature and society -- England. ; SChaucerGeoffrey

Description

First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of contention: the division of social duties into the three estates, the controversies around Wycliffite thought and practice, and the roles of women. Drawing on recent literary theory, particularly Bakhtin and Foucault, Peggy Knapp offers both a reading of nearly all the tales and an argument about how such readings come about, both for Chaucer's earliest audiences and for us.

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