This book examines the scholarly construction of Geoffrey Chaucer in different historical eras, and challenges long-standing assumptions to enhance the theoretical dialogue on Chaucer's historical reception.

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GEOFFERY GUST is Assistant Professor and Faculty Associate Researcher of Medieval Studies at Arizona University, USA.

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Book Title: Constructing Chaucer
Book Subtitle: Author and Autofiction in the Critical Tradition
Authors: Geoffrey W. Gust
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230621619
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7643-7Published: 16 July 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62161-9Published: 25 May 2009
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 286
Topics: Medieval Literature, History of Medieval Europe, Classical and Antique Literature

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Persona and Personalities: Medieval Lineage, Modern Legacy

Getting a Life: Biographical Constructions of Chaucer the Man

Chaucer Speaks: Memoirs of the Man?

Lives of their Own: The Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Critical (Dis)Approval

Claiming The “Popet”: Ethics, Evasion, and the Pilgrim’s Progress

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