Shame and Guilt in Chaucer

by Anne McTaggart

Book Overview

Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230337384
• ISBN13: 9780230337381
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"