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D. Carlson - Chaucer's Jobs - 9780230602434 - V9780230602434
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Chaucer's Jobs

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Description for Chaucer's Jobs Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
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 by turns flatters his aristocratic betters and deals out discipline to malcontent others. Carlson contends that it was this social-political quality of Chaucer's writings, not artistic merit, that made him the 'Father ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
Series
The New Middle Ages
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230602434
SKU
V9780230602434
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About D. Carlson
DAVID R. CARLSON is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of English Humanist Books: Writers and Patrons, Manuscript and Print, 1475-1525 and has published various monographs and papers on topics in early English and European literary history.

Reviews for Chaucer's Jobs
"In this imaginative book, David Carlson invites us to read Chaucer's poetry through his professional careers. As servant to the aristocracy, official for the court, Member of Parliament, Clerk of the King's Works, tax-gatherer, justice of the peace, and so on, Chaucer was, in Carlson's words, everything from a 'lackey' to an 'official of the repressive apparatus of the state.' ... Read more

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