Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales

A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer's best-known poem.

List of contents

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Note on the text; Chronology; List of abbreviations; 1. The form of the Canterbury tales Marion Turner; 2. Manuscripts, scribes, circulation Simon Horobin; 3. The general prologue Steven Justice; 4. The knight's tale and the estrangements of form Mark Miller; 5. The miller's tale and the art of solaas Maura Nolan; 6. The man of law's tale Catherine Sanok; 7. The wife of bath's prologue and tale Elizabeth Scala; 8. The friar's tale and the summoner's tale in word and deed David K. Coley; 9. Griselda and the problem of the human in the clerk's tale Holly A. Crocker; 10. The franklin's symptomatic sursanure Peter W. Travis; 11. The pardoner and his tale Kathy Lavezzo; 12. The prioress's tale Steven F. Kruger; 13. The nun's priest's tale Mishtooni Bose; 14. Moral Chaucer Frank Grady; 15. Chaucer's sense of an ending Patricia Clare Ingham and Anthony Bale; 16. Postscript: How to talk about Chaucer with your friends and colleagues; Reading Chaucer: Easier than you think? David Matthews; Scholarship or distraction? new forums for talking about Chaucer Ruth Evans; Talking about Chaucer with school teachers David Raybin; Who will pay? Stephanie Trig; Further reading, Index.

About the author

Frank Grady is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Missouri-St Louis. He is a former editor of Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2002–07), author of Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England (2005), and co-editor of Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (2013; with Andrew Galloway) and the revised edition of the MLA's Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (2014; with Peter Travis).

Summary

This selection of essays delivers an accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Fresh engagement with the individual tales provides a lively and provocative guide to arguably the most important text in the teaching of medieval literature.

Product details

• Authors: FRANK GRADY, Grady Frank Grady, Frank Grady, Frank (University of Missouri Grady
• Assisted by: Frank Grady (Editor), Grady Frank (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781107181007
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18100-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Middle English