Historians on Chaucer : the 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales /
As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human c...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human condition', critics from a wide range of theoretical approaches have in recent years shown how the work of poets such as Chaucer constituted engagements with the power relations and social inequalities of their time. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 503 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191003684 0191003689 9780191802669 0191802662 |