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Chaucerian conflict : languages of antagonism in late fourteenth-century London /

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'Chaucerian Conflict' offers a different reading of Chaucer. While most critics have seen his work as essentially socially optimistic and congenial, this book argues that Chaucer was concerned with conflict and social antagonism. His texts are examined alongside a variety of poetry and his...

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Main Author: Turner, Marion, 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford English monographs.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Political and social views.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400
Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Chaucer, Geoffrey > 1343-1400
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Literature and society > England > History > To 1500.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Criticism, Textual.
Social history > Medieval, 500-1500.
Social conflict in literature.
Social structure in literature.
England > Civilization > 1066-1485.
Histoire sociale > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Structure sociale dans la littérature.
Angleterre > Civilisation > 1066-1485.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Civilization
English literature > Middle English
Literature and society
Political and social views
Social conflict in literature
Social history > Medieval
Social structure in literature
England
Konflikt > Motiv
Literatur
Zeithintergrund
Englisch
London > Motiv
Sociale conflicten.
Engels.
Bellettrie.
Londen.
Englisch.
London (Motiv)
To 1500
Geschichte 1380-1400.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Chaucerian conflict
  • Discursive turbulence : slander, the House of fame, and the Mercers' petition
  • Urban treason : Troilus and Criseyde and the 'treasonous aldermen' of 1382
  • Idealism and antagonism : Troynovaunt in the late fourteenth century
  • Ricardian communities : Thomas Usk's social fantasies
  • Conflicted Compaignyes : the Canterbury fellowship and urban associational form
  • Conflict resolved? : the language of peace and Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee'.