Geoffrey Chaucer A Sourcebook Complete Critical Guide to English Literature 1st Edition by Gillian Rudd ISBN 0415202418 9780415202411
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ISBN 10: 0415202418
ISBN 13: 9780415202411
Author: Gillian Rudd
Geoffrey Chaucer: A Sourcebook by Gillian Rudd is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to one of England’s most influential medieval poets. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume offers a balanced overview of Chaucer’s life, works, and the critical discourse surrounding them.
Table of contents:
Part I LIFE AND CONTEXTS
(a) Chaucer’s biography
(i) Establishing dates
(ii) Family background and early years
(iii) Education
(iv) The Ulster household
(v) Royal service and connections with John of Gaunt
(vi) Travels to Italy
(vii) The case of Cecily Champaign
(viii) Controller of Customs and the London years
(ix) The Peasants’ Revolt and the move to Kent
(x) Time in Kent
(xi) Clerk of the King’s Works
(xii) The return to London: the last years
(b) Social, literary and historical contexts
(1) War and chivalry
(ii) Chivalry
(iii) Courtly love and marriage
(iv) Marriage and remarriage
(v) Death, plague and revolt
(vi) Church as institution
(vii) Religion and philosophy
(viii) Literary contexts
Part II WORK
(a) Short verse
(i) Three early short poems
(ii)
Other complaints
(iii)
Boethian ballades and envoys
(b) The dream poems
(i) The Romaunt of the Rose
(iii)
(ii) The Book of the Duchess
The House of Fame
(iv)
The Parliament of Fowls
(v)
Prologue to The Legend of Good Women
(c) Non-fiction prose
(i)
Boece
(ii) A Treatise on the Astrolabe
(iii) The Equator of the Planets
(d) Troilus and Criseyde
(e) Collections of Tales: The Legend of Good Women
(i) The Legend of Good Women
(ii) The pretext for writing the Legend
(f) Collections of Tales: The Canterbury Tales
(1) The ‘whole’ collection: manuscripts, texts and dates
(ii) The General Prologue
(iii) The Knight’s Tale
(iv)
The Miller’s Tale
(v) The Reeve’s Tale
(vi) The Cook’s Tale
(vii) The Man of Law’s Tale
(viii) The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
(ix) The Friar’s Tale
(x) The Summoner’s Tale
(xi) The Clerk’s Tale
(xii) The Merchant’s Tale
(xiii) The Squire’s Tale
(xiv) The Franklin’s Tale
(xv) The Physician’s Tale
(xvi) The Pardoner’s Tale
(xvii) The Shipman’s Tale
(xviii) The Prioress’s Tale
(xix) The Tales of Sir Thopas and Melibee
(xx) The Monk’s Tale
(xxi) The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
(xxii) The Second Nun’s Tale
(xxiii) The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale
(xxiv) The Manciple’s Tale
(xxv) The Parson’s Tale
(xxvi) The Retraction
Part III CRITICISM
(a) Biography
(b) Text, manuscripts, editing
(c) Chaucer’s language
(d) Sources, literary background, rhetoric and poetics
(e) Narrators, irony and satire
(f) Historicism, old and new
(g) Politics and ideology
(h) Feminism and gender
(i) Imitation, modernisation, allusion
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