Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales

An in-depth reading of the meditation on the relation between literary value and social identity in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Canterbury Tales IV-V and literary value; 1. Clerk; 2. Merchant; 3. Squire; 4. Franklin; Works cited; Index.

About the author

Robert J. Meyer-Lee is Associate Professor of English at Agnes Scott College. He is author of Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt (Cambridge, 2007) as well as numerous articles on Chaucer, fifteenth-century poetry, and literary value published in journals such as Speculum, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, New Literary History, The Chaucer Review, JEGP, and Exemplaria.

Summary

Focusing on the Clerk, Merchant, Franklin and Squire sequence in The Canterbury Tales, this book explores Chaucer's meditation on the fraught relation between the value of literature and the values underlying various non-literary ways of earning a living. It will appeal to scholars and students of medieval studies.

Product details

• Authors: Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Robert J. (Agnes Scott College Meyer-Lee, Meyer-Lee Robert J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108485661
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48566-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Anthologies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Anthologies (non-poetry), History and Archaeology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Middle English