Chaucer and the Cultures of Love and Marriage

by Cathy Hume

Substantial new readings of Chaucer's poems, offering a fresh perspective on some of the major controversies in Chaucer scholarship.

Chaucer's preoccupation with love and marriage has been a focus of criticism for more than a century. Here, the love relationships and marriages in six of the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Legend of Good Women are reappraised from a fresh direction, using late medieval letter collections and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843843218
• ISBN13: 9781843843214
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"