Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)
Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest that society in fictional form. Significantaspects of the literary scene, such as patronage, audience, and performance, help to place Chaucer's practices in their historical framework, and his treatment of love, paganism, and reality are framed wi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-161968-7
- EAN: 9780191619687
- Produktnummer: 13959802
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'822 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 black and white, including one map
Über den Autor
Peter Brown is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has taught at the Universities of Exeter, Connecticut, and California at Los Angeles, and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has published widely on Chaucer and other aspects of medieval culture and has edited A Companion to Chaucer (Blackwell, 2000), Companion to Medieval English Literature andCulture 1350-1500 (Blackwell, 2007). His most recent book is Chaucer and the Making of Optical Space (Peter Lang, 2007).
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