Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern

by Stephanie Trigg

Book Overview

Congenial Souls surveys the critical literature from the late Middle Ages to the contemporary period to show how editors and critics constructed various voices as a response -- even a supplement -- to Chaucer's work. Concentrating on turning points in the history of this discourse and in the creation of a special Chaucerian community, Trigg arrives at the fraught notion of a critical community in our day. What, she asks, do feminist studies or cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816638225
• ISBN13: 9780816638222
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"