Rethinking Chaucer's Legend of Good Women

A fresh reading of the Legend shows it to be one of Chaucer's most carefully crafted and significant works.

List of contents

Introduction
Love of Books
Exemplary Women
As Etik seith: Aristotelian Ideas in the Legend
Women in Love: on the Unity of The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde
A New Paradigm: Comedy and the Individual
Epilogue

About the author

Carolyn P. Collette

Summary

A fresh reading of the Legend shows it to be one of Chaucer's most carefully crafted and significant works.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Collette, Carolyn P Collette, Carolyn P (Royalty Account) Collette, Carolyn P. Collette
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2014
• EAN: 9781903153499
• ISBN: 978-1-903153-49-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 428 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Lyrik, Poesie, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh