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Chaucer and Boccaccio

Antiquity and Modernity

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  • © 2002

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  1. Robert R. Edwards
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert R. Edwards
    Pages 1-16

  3. ‘The strif of Thebes’: Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer

    • Robert R. Edwards
    Pages 17-43

  4. The Twin Necessity of Troilus and Criseyde

    • Robert R. Edwards
    Pages 44-74

  5. The ‘confusioun of gentil wemen’: Antiquity and the Short Side of History

    • Robert R. Edwards
    Pages 75-103

  6. The ‘Cherles Tale’ and Chaucerian Modernity

    • Robert R. Edwards
    Pages 104-127

  7. ‘The sclaundre of Walter’: The Clerk’s Tale and the Problem of Hermeneutics

    • Robert R. Edwards
    Pages 128-152

  8. Rewriting Menedon’s Story: Decameron 10.5 and the Franklin’s Tale

    • Robert R. Edwards
    Pages 153-172

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 173-205
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In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provide sources and models for portraying the classical past and medieval modernity. In so doing, Edwards provides us with a valuable way of assessing Chaucer's analysis of late medieval culture.

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'Edwards's attentive and accomplished study will surely engage students and scholars.' - C.S. Cox, Choice

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ROBERT R. EDWARDS is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of books on Chaucer, medieval drama, medieval literary theory, and the Italian poet Guido Guinizelli. He has edited the works of John Lydgate and essay collections on love, desire, and sexuality in the Middle Ages.

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