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Chaucer and the City

By Ardis Butterfield

Chaucer and the City Contemporary literature

Chaucer and the City

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Literature of the city and the city in literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London poet, defining the modern sense of London as a city in history, steeped in its medieval past. Building on recent work by historians on medieval London, as well as modern urban theory, the essays address the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city. Contributors explore the spatial extent of the city, imaginatively and geographically; the diverse and sometimes violent relationships between communities, and the use of language to identify and speak for communities; the worlds of commerce, the aristocracy, law, and public order. A final section considers the longer history and memory of the medieval city beyond the devastations of the Great Fire and into the Victorian period. Dr ARDIS BUTTERFIELD is Reader in English at University College London.Contributors: ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, MARION TURNER, RUTH EVANS, BARBARA NOLAN, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, DEREK PEARSALL, HELEN COOPER, C. DAVID BENSON, ELLIOT KENDALL, JOHN SCATTERGOOD, PAUL DAVIS, HELEN PHILLIPS
Product details
Number of Pages:
250
Release Date:
2006-06-29
Publication Date:
2006-05-18
Publisher:
D.S.Brewer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843840731
ISBN13:
9781843840732
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
543 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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