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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818995503321

Autore

Knapp Peggy Ann.

Titolo

Chaucer and the social contest / / Peggy Knapp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-81095-1

1-283-59170-7

9786613904157

1-136-81096-X

0-203-82881-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Collana

Routledge Revivals

Disciplina

821/.1

Soggetti

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature

Social history - Medieval, 500-1500

Literature and society - England

Social problems in literature

England Social conditions 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1990 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p.143-156.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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