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The Canterbury tales

Author: Helen Cooper
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Series: Oxford guides to Chaucer.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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"This edition incorporates a broader representation of the most significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research into Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women." "The book is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable  Read more...
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Named Person: Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Helen Cooper
ISBN: 0198711557 9780198711551
OCLC Number: 33818820
Description: 439 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Title: Oxford guides to Chaucer.
Responsibility: Helen Cooper.
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"This edition incorporates a broader representation of the most significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research into Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women." "The book is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. It combines the comprehensive coverage of a reference book with the coherence of a critical account and, since its first publication in 1989, has established itself as a standard work on the Tales."--BOOK JACKET.

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Good comprehensive study of Chaucer's Canterbury, balanced

by vleighton (WorldCat user published 2008-06-04) Excellent Permalink
A one volume overview of the Canterbury Tales. It reviews the literature current as of 1996. It is considered an excellent study even as of the year 2005. The text is not substantially different from the first edition, so if you have the first edition, you basically have the current text, without a...
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