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CHAUCER'S LEGENDARY GOOD WOMEN
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| By: |
Florence Percival, Alastair Minnis, Patrick Boyde |
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Hardback |
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£106.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521416558 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521416559 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
19 November, 1998 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature No. 38 |
| Pages: |
356 |
| Description: |
A comprehensive account of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women. |
| Synopsis: |
Chaucer's Legend of Good Women is a testament to the disparate views of women prevalent in the Middle Ages. Dr Percival contends that the complex medieval notion of Woman informs the structure of the poem: in the Prologue Chaucer praises conventional ideas of female virtue, while in the Legends he demonstrates a humorous scepticism, apparently influenced by a contemporary antifeminist tradition. The debate Chaucer thus promotes could be relied on to entertain many medieval readers, at the same time that it demonstrates the power of the vernacular translator/poet to handle language wittily and to do just as he pleases with the august texts of the past. This is a comprehensive account of the Legend's interpretative puzzles, which does not ignore the element of political writing, and adds to a close and nuanced reading of the text an examination of literary, historical, and social contexts. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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