Chaucer and Langland
Chaucer and Langland

Author: John M. Bowers

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13:

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Examines the political, social, and religious factors that contributed to the formation of a literary canon in fourteenth-century England. This book tracks the reputations of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland into the fifteenth century, when studies of 14th-century literature became configured in terms of a double, antagonistic dynamic.

Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire
Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire

Author: Mann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1973-06-28

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780521200585

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This book is an attempt to discover the origins and significance of the General Prologue-to the Canterbury Tales. The interest of such an inquiry is many-sided. On the one hand, it throws light on the question of whether `life' or 'literature' was Chaucer's model in this work, on the relationship between Chaucer's twenty-odd pilgrims and the structure of medieval society, and on the role of their `estate' in determining the elements of which Chaucer composes their portraits. On the other hand, it makes suggestions about the ways in which Chaucer convinces us of the individuality of his pilgrims, about the nature of his irony, and the kind of moral standards implicit in the Prologue. This book suggests that Chaucer is ironically substituting for the traditional moral view of social structure a vision of a world where morality becomes as specialised to the individual as his work-life.

An Introduction to Piers Plowman
An Introduction to Piers Plowman

Author: Michael A. Calabrese

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780813064574

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The author covers all three iterations of William Langland's Piers Plowman and discusses the various changes that occurred from one revision to the next, making this work unique in its ability to be taught alongside any version of a professor's choosing.

Chaucer: An Introduction
Chaucer: An Introduction

Author: S.S. Hussey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-18

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1000681300

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Originally published in 1981, this second edition built on the success of the first which had established itself as a standard introduction to the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer. It shows Chaucer not only in the context of his own age, but, more important, as a writer and a man who is still vivid to us so many years later. As well as examining the early poems, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales the author gives a thorough account of Chaucer's background. He examines the traditions in which he wrote, his audience, and his position among his contemporaries. The second edition was updated throughout and included a number of revisions and additions, in particular on the second part of the Roman de la Rose and on The Knight's Tale.