Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

By Helen Cooper

Book Overview

Since its first publication in 1989, Helen Cooper's guide to The Canterbury Tales has established itself as the standard work on the poem. This second edition continues to offer the most comprehensive scrutiny of the Tales both as a whole and individually. In addition, Cooper incorporates the most significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research in the areas of Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198711557
• ISBN13: 9780198711551
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Classic

This and Elaine Tuttle Hansen's _Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender_ are, I think, the two single best books of Chaucerian criticism out there. This book provides everything you need to know about the CT: the sources and influences of the Canterbury Tales, the themes and issues for each teller and his/her tale, and the dominant interpretations out there. Plus there's the Cooper-type insight into the tales you just come to expect from her work. This one's a classic.