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Chaucerian conflict : languages of antagonism in late fourteenth-century London / Marion Turner.

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'Chaucerian Conflict' offers a different reading of Chaucer. While most critics have seen his work as essentially socially optimistic and congenial, this book argues that Chaucer was concerned with conflict and social antagonism. His texts are examined alongside a variety of poetry and his...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Turner, Marion, 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford English monographs.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Political and social views.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales.
Literature and society > England > History > To 1500.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Criticism, Textual.
Social history > Medieval, 500-1500.
Social conflict in literature.
Social structure in literature.
England > Civilization > 1066-1485.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400.
Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Civilization.
English literature > Middle English.
Literature and society.
Political and social views.
Social history > Medieval.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Chaucerian conflict
  • Discursive turbulence : slander, the House of fame, and the Mercers' petition
  • Urban treason : Troilus and Criseyde and the 'treasonous aldermen' of 1382
  • Idealism and antagonism : Troynovaunt in the late fourteenth century
  • Ricardian communities : Thomas Usk's social fantasies
  • Conflicted Compaignyes : the Canterbury fellowship and urban associational form
  • Conflict resolved? : the language of peace and Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee'

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