Butterfield Chaucer and the City

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84615-455-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 37, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Chaucer Studies

Essays exploring Chaucer's identity as a London poet and the urban context for his writings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Butterfield, Ardis

Weitere Mitwirkende

Butterfield, Ardis

Nolan, Barbara

Benson, C. David

Cannon, Christopher

Pearsall, Derek

Kendall, Elliot

Cooper, Helen

Phillips, Helen

Scattergood, John

Turner, Marion

Davis, Paul

Evans, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Chaucer and the Detritus of the City - Ardis Butterfield
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
Chaucer and the Language of London - Christopher Cannon
The Canterbury Tales and London Club Culture - Derek Pearsall
London and Southwark Poetic Companies: `Si tost c'amis' and the Canterbury Tales - Helen Cooper
Literary Contests and London Records in the Canterbury 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
After the Fire: Chaucer and Urban Poetics, 1666-1743 - Paul Davis
Chaucer and the Nineteenth-Century City - Helen Phillips

Über Autor(innen)

Pearsall Derek:
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.