Chaucer and the City

Essays exploring Chaucer's identity as a London poet and the urban context for his writings.

List of contents

Introduction: Chaucer and the Detritus of the City - Ardis Butterfield
Greater London - Marion Turner
The Production of Space in Chaucer's London - Ruth Evans
Chaucer's Poetics of Dwelling in Troilus and Criseyde - Barbara Nolan
Chaucer and the Language of London - Christopher Cannon
The Canterbury Tales and London Club Culture - Derek Pearsall
London and Southwark Poetic Companies: `Si tost c'amis' and the Canterbury Tales - Helen Cooper
Literary Contests and London Records in the Canterbury Tales - C. David Benson
The Great Household in the City: The Shipman's Tale - Elliot Kendall
London and Money: Chaucer's Complaint to His Purse - John Scattergood
After the Fire: Chaucer and Urban Poetics, 1666-1743 - Paul Davis
Chaucer and the Nineteenth-Century City - Helen Phillips

About the author

Ardis Butterfield

Product details

• Authors: Ardis Butterfield
• Assisted by: Ardis Butterfield (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2006
• EAN: 9781843840732
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-073-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 237 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Chaucer Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies