Chaucer's Jobs

by David R. Carlson

Book Overview

Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the poet was employed first at domestic personal service and subsequently at police-work of various sorts, protecting the established order during a period of massive social upset. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403966257
• ISBN13: 9781403966254
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.5"