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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Strohm, Paul, 1938- Social Chaucer. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989 (OCoLC)598049852 |
Named Person: | Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Strohm |
ISBN: | 0674811984 9780674811980 0674811992 9780674811997 |
OCLC Number: | 19325471 |
Description: | xiii, 236 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Chaucer and the structure of social relations -- The king's affinity -- Audience -- Selflessness and selfishness -- Time and the social implications of narrative form -- A mixed commonwealth of style. |
Responsibility: | Paul Strohm. |
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Admirably detailed, lucid, original and always lively... By far the best history of Chaucer's life and social relations I have ever read, a delightfully intelligent explication of the social meaning of Chaucer's art, and the consistently sensitive deployment of a rich understanding of ideological conflicts and changes in late fourteenth-century England... Moving and compelling... A wonderful book. -- David Aers * Times Higher Education Supplement * [A] sensitive exploration of historical detail... The question of [Chaucer's] audience is a complex one, and Strohm charts the known, the unknown, the plausible guess, and the fictional constructs well and suggestively. -- Helen Cooper * Review of English Studies * One of the most important books on Middle English in many years. -- Lee Patterson * Speculum * An ambitious book and one that stands at the very center of contemporary Chaucer criticism-and is central to the current demand for a new kind of historicism. It is extremely knowledgeable on the social and historical background and at the same time sensitive in an unusual way to the poetry; and it contains some of the best writing on Chaucer's life I have read. -- Derek Pearsall, Harvard University Read more...


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