Chaucer's cultural geography / edited by Kathryn L. Lynch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lynch, Kathryn L., 1951-

Series:

Basic readings in Chaucer and his time

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Knowledge and learning--Geography.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Geography.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.

Geography, Medieval, in literature.

Culture in literature.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Culture.

Local Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

320 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

This compilation of new essays and essays published over the past fifty years explores Chaucer's experiences with the cultural other, especially Chaucer's relationship to Far Eastern, Islamic, and African sources. While studies of Chaucer's "orientalism" have heretofore focused on the "Squire's Tale," "Chaucer's Cultural Geography" considers many different Chaucerian works in the context of sexual geographies and colonizing and postcolonizing discourses. It comes at a time when critical methodology is being debated and a variety of approaches to Chacuer studies using modes of analyses normally reserved for later periods, including Said's orientalism theories, Dollimore's "transgressive proximity" and new French feminism. Moreover, the book fits well into the new emphasis in the Chaucer curriculum on globalism and multiculturalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415930014

OCLC:

50023603