Chaucer and the social contest / Peggy Knapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knapp, Peggy Ann.

Series:

Routledge Revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Political and social views.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Literature and society--England.

Literature and society.

Social problems in literature.

England--Social conditions--1066-1485.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of contention: the division of social duties into the three estates, the controversies around Wycliffite thought and practice, and the roles of women. Drawing on recent literary theory, particularly Bakhtin and Foucault, Peggy Knapp offers both a reading of nearly all the tales and

Contents:

Chaucer and the Social Contest; Copyright; Chaucer and the Social Contest; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Thawing Frozen Words; Part I: The Estates; 2 Chivalry and Its Discontents; 3 Robyn the Miller's Thrifty Work; 4 The Work of the Religious; Part II: The Wycliffite Controversy; 5 Coming to Terms with Wyclif; 6 Three ""Noble Prechours"": Pardoner, Nun's Priest, and Parson; Part III: Women; 7 ""Mannes Governance"" and ""Wommannes Conseil""; 8 Alisoun Looms; 9 Griselda and the Patient Clerk; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p.143-156.

ISBN:

1-136-81095-1

1-283-59170-7

9786613904157

1-136-81096-X

0-203-82881-X

9780203828816

OCLC:

811493386