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Geoffrey Chaucer

  • Textbook
  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Janette Dillon
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Part of the book series: Writers in their Time (WRTI)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Chaucer’s Life and Times

    • Janette Dillon
    Pages 1-24

  3. Literary Production and Audience

    • Janette Dillon
    Pages 25-43

  4. Four Estates

    • Janette Dillon
    Pages 44-70

  5. Continental England

    • Janette Dillon
    Pages 71-90

  6. ‘Greet altercacioun’: The Influence of Philosophy

    • Janette Dillon
    Pages 91-116

  7. ‘This wrecched world’: The Obsession with Death

    • Janette Dillon
    Pages 117-140

  8. Reputation and Influence

    • Janette Dillon
    Pages 141-166

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 167-212
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About this book

This volume situates Chaucer's life and writings within the context of fourteenth-century history, national and international, giving a broad general outline of the period for those coming to it for the first time. The book focuses on particular poetic texts, including The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess and The Parliament of Fowls, interpreting them in the light of contemporary ideology and literary practice, and underlining the specific relations between texts and audiences in a manuscript culture.

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