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Chaucer in Context - Society, Allegory and Gender (Paperback, New)
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Chaucer in Context - Society, Allegory and Gender (Paperback, New)
Series: Manchester Medieval Studies
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Loot Price R590
Discovery Miles 5 900
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Everyone knows of the Canterbury Tales, acknowledged as one of the
leading texts of the English Canon. Consensus about them ends
there. Amongst the most written about works of English literature,
they still defy categorisation. Was Chaucer a poet of profound
religious piety or a sceptic who questioned all religious and moral
certainties? Do his pilgrims reflect the actual society of his day,
or were they a product of an already well-established literary
tradition and convention? Was he a defender of women or a
misogynist, who reproduced the antifeminism characteristic of his
time? Did his writings present a challenge to the dominant social
outlook of late Medieval England or reinforce the status quo? This
stimulating new book surveys and assesses these competing critical
approaches to Chaucer's work, emphasising the need to see Chaucer
in historical context; the context of the social and political
concerns of his own day. Writing as a historian, Rigby brings
refreshing new insights to this contested old chestnut and Chaucer,
and his Tales, are revealed to us as Chaucer's contemporaries would
have seen them.
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