| Description |
1 online resource (231 pages, 1 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map, music |
| Series |
Chaucer studies ; 37 |
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Chaucer studies ; 37.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Chaucer and the detritus of the city / Ardis Butterfield -- Locations: Greater London / Marion Turner. The production of space in Chaucer's London / Ruth Evans. Chaucer's poetics of dwelling in Troilus and Criseyde / Barbara Nolan -- Communities: Chaucer and the language of London / Christopher Cannon. The Canturbury tales and London club culture / Derek Pearsall. London and Southwark poetic companies : 'Si tost c'amis' and the Canturbury tales ; Appendix: an edition and translation of Renaud de Hoiland, 'Si tost c'amis' / Helen Cooper -- Institutions: Literary contests and London records in the Canturbury tales / C. David Benson. The great household in the city : the Shipman's tale / Elliot Kendall. London and money : Chaucer's Complaint to his purse / John Scattergood -- Afterlives: After the fire : Chaucer and urban poetics, 1666-1743 / Paul Davis. Chaucer and the nineteenth-century city / Helen Phillips |
| Summary |
Presenting essays exploring Chaucer's identity as a London poet, and the urban context for his writings, this volume addresses the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and the importance of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Knowledge -- England -- London
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Homes and haunts -- London
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| SUBJECT |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast |
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Literature and society -- England -- London -- History -- To 1500
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Homes
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Literature
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Literature and society
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Steden.
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| SUBJECT |
London (England) -- In literature
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| Subject |
England -- London
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Butterfield, Ardis.
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| ISBN |
9781846154553 |
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1846154553 |
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9781843840732 (hbk.) |
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1843840731 (hbk.) |
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