Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales

ISBN-13: 9781108485661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 296 str.

Robert J. Meyer-Lee

Opis

Focusing on the Clerk, Merchant, Franklin and Squire sequence in The Canterbury Tales, this book explores Chaucer's meditation on the fraught relation between the value of literature and the values underlying various non-literary ways of earning a living. It will appeal to scholars and students of medieval studies.

Recenzje

'… crisp and clear …' Chad Schrock, Modern Language Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Canterbury Tales IV-V and literary value; 1. Clerk; 2. Merchant; 3. Squire; 4. Franklin; Works cited; Index.