Research Catalog

Title

Geoffrey Chaucer / editor, James M. Dean, University of Delaware, Newark.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

Dean, James M. (James McMurrin)

Description

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Geoffrey Chaucer, fourteenth-century master storyteller and comic genius, was the greatest English author of the Middle Ages. This volume includes essays that help explain why Chaucer is called the father of English letters. Essay topics include Chaucer as an international poet, gender and horror in The Canterbury Tales and Chaucer s links to Shakespeare.

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subject

• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Criticism and interpretation
• English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
• Civilization, Medieval, in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Description (note)

• Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Contents

On Geoffrey Chaucer / James M. Dean -- Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer / Scott Lightsey -- Harry Bailly's Labor and Time Consciousness on Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage / Gregory M. Sadlek -- Chaucer's Philosopher: Boethian Contexts for Reading Chaucer's Poetry / Kevin J. Burke -- Reading Lessons: Chaucer and the Comfort of Uncertainty / Susan Yager -- Selling Satire: Gower, Chaucer, and the End of the Estates / Roger A. Ladd -- Critical Readings Chaucer's Language / Susan Yager -- Transnational Chaucer / Kathryn McKinley -- Chaucer's Reality Fiction / James M. Dean -- Chaucer, John Donne, and "The Flea": A "Robertsonian" Perspective / Robert C. Evans -- Charting Chaucer: Travel, Mechanical Magic, and Controlling the Narrative / Francis Tobienne Jr. -- Chaucer's International Presence / Scott Lightsey / The Mortal Spectacle: History in The Monk's Tale / James M. Dean -- Chaucer, Nashe, and the "The Choice of Valentines" / Robert C. Evans -- Chaucer as a Sociolinguist: Understanding the Role of Language in Chaucer's Internationalism / Jonathan Fruoco -- Chronology of Geoffrey Chaucer's Life -- Works by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Call Number

JFE 17-4235

ISBN

• 9781682172568
• 1682172562

OCLC

974669325

Title

Geoffrey Chaucer / editor, James M. Dean, University of Delaware, Newark.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Edition

[First edition].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note

Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Added Author

Dean, James M. (James McMurrin), editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-4235