Chaucer: Contemporary Critical Essays

by Valerie Allen

Over the last few decades, literary criticism has come increasingly to consider its relation to politics, socio-economics, gender, psychoanalysis, language and cultural values. Chaucer's most popular and widely-studied work, The Canterbury Tales, boasts a body of criticism which well reflects the diversity of scholarly readings, from the New Critical to the postmodern. The essays gathered here offer the student some of the best and most provocative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333565037
• ISBN13: 9780333565032
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"