Father Chaucer - Generating Authority in the Canterbury Tales

This volume offers a fresh interpretation of Geoffrey Chaucer both as a poet and as a man. Taking as its starting point the idea of Chaucer as the 'Father of English Poetry', the book explores how the poet's thoughts on paternity and creativity lie at the heart of The Canterbury Tales.

List of contents

• Introduction: The Dream of Father Chaucer


• Part I. On Certainty


• 1: Sexual Exegetics and the Female Text


• 2: The Uneasy Institution: Lineage and the Wife of Bath


• Part II. On Creation


• 3: Uncertain Labor: Conception and the Problem of Productivity


• 4: Adultery's Heirs: Multiplying Excess


• Part III: On Likeness


• 5: Almost Heirs: Daughters and Disappointments


• 6: Father Chaucer's Heirs

About the author

Samantha Katz Seal is an Associate Professor of English and the Pamela Shulman Professor of European and Holocaust Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She has been an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and a Visiting Scholar in Harvard University's Medieval Studies Program.

Summary

This volume offers a fresh interpretation of Geoffrey Chaucer both as a poet and as a man. Taking as its starting point the idea of Chaucer as the 'Father of English Poetry', the book explores how the poet's thoughts on paternity and creativity lie at the heart of The Canterbury Tales.

Product details

• Authors: Samantha Katz Seal, Samantha Katz (Associate Professor of Englis Seal
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2023
• EAN: 9780198904885
• ISBN: 978-0-19-890488-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets