Chaucerian conflict [electronic resource] : languages of antagonism in late fourteenth-century London / Marion Turner.
By: Turner, Marion.
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Series: Oxford English monographs: Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007Description: viii, 213 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Political and social views | Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation | Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Troilus and Criseyde | Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Canterbury tales | Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500 | English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Criticism, Textual | Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500 | Social conflict in literature | Social structure in literature | England -- Civilization -- 1066-1485Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 821/.1 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-208) and index.
Introduction : Chaucerian conflict -- Discursive turbulence : slander, the House of fame, and the Mercers' petition -- Urban treason : Troilus and Criseyde and the 'treasonous aldermen' of 1382 -- Idealism and antagonism : Troynovaunt in the late fourteenth century -- Ricardian communities : Thomas Usk's social fantasies -- Conflicted Compaignyes : the Canterbury fellowship and urban associational form --Conflict resolved? : the language of peace and Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee'.
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