Mobility and Identity in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

The movement of the pilgrims in the Tales explored both practically and metaphorically, showing it to be an expression of identity.

List of contents

Introduction: Moving across, in, and as the World
Chapter One: Economic Mobilities in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Chapter Two: Building Bridges to Canterbury
Chapter Three: Rocking the Cradle and Quiting the Knight
Chapter Four: "Translating" Female Bodies and (En)Gendering Mobility
Conclusion: Mobilizing Medieval and Modern Identities
Bibliography

About the author

SARAH BRECKENRIDGE WRIGHT is an assistant professor of English at Duquesne University.

Summary

The movement of the pilgrims in the Tales explored both practically and metaphorically, showing it to be an expression of identity.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Breckenri Wright, Sarah Breckenridge Wright, Sarah Breckenridge (Author) Wright
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781843845522
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-552-2
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 485 g
• Series: Chaucer Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism