Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London

by Marion Turner

Chaucerian Conflict explores the textual environment of London in the 1380s and 1390s, revealing a language of betrayal, surveillance, slander, treason, rebellion, flawed idealism, and corrupted compaignyes. Taking a strongly interdisciplinary approach, it examines how discourses about social antagonism work across different kinds of texts written at this time, including Chaucer's House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde, and Canterbury Tales, and other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199207895
• ISBN13: 9780199207893
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 8.6"