Chaucer and the Cultures of Love and Marriage
Cathy Hume
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Description for Chaucer and the Cultures of Love and Marriage
Hardback.
Substantial new readings of Chaucer's poems, offering a fresh perspective on some of the major controversies in Chaucer scholarship. Chaucer's preoccupation with love and marriage has been a focus of criticism for more than a century. Here, the love relationships and marriages in six of the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Legend of Good Women are reappraised from a fresh direction, using late medieval letter collections and advice literature for women to shed new light on the competing cultures of love and marriage that troubled both Chaucer himself and hiscontemporaries. Beginning with a concise summary of the ... Read more
Substantial new readings of Chaucer's poems, offering a fresh perspective on some of the major controversies in Chaucer scholarship. Chaucer's preoccupation with love and marriage has been a focus of criticism for more than a century. Here, the love relationships and marriages in six of the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Legend of Good Women are reappraised from a fresh direction, using late medieval letter collections and advice literature for women to shed new light on the competing cultures of love and marriage that troubled both Chaucer himself and hiscontemporaries. Beginning with a concise summary of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843843214
SKU
V9781843843214
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Ref
99-50
About Cathy Hume
CATHY HUME is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol.
Reviews for Chaucer and the Cultures of Love and Marriage
Well-written and insightful, an excellent resource for any Chaucer scholar to add to his or her bookshelf.
CITHARA
Casts new light on Chaucer's representation of marriage in relation to 'real human lives' and his 'own social reality'.
REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES
[A] rich and extremely interesting book. One of the most rewarding aspects of Hume's work ... Read more
CITHARA
Casts new light on Chaucer's representation of marriage in relation to 'real human lives' and his 'own social reality'.
REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES
[A] rich and extremely interesting book. One of the most rewarding aspects of Hume's work ... Read more