Reading Geoffrey Chaucer - An Introduction

Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works' deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day.

List of contents

Preface: User Manual for This Book
Introduction: Why Read Chaucer Now?
Chapter 1: The Canterbury Tales: Overview and General Prologue
Chapter 2: The Knight's and Miller's Tales
Chapter 3: The Man of Law's Tale
Chapter 4: The Wife of Bath's Tale
Chapter 5: The Pardoner's Tale
Chapter 6: The Prioress's Tale
Chapter 7: Dream Visions - The House of Fame and the Legend of Good Women
Chapter 8: Troilus and Criseyde

About the author

Robert J. Meyer-Lee (PhD Yale, English) is Professor of English at Agnes Scott College. He is author of The Problem of Literary Value (2023), Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales (2019), and Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt (2007); editor (with Catherine Sanok) of The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form (2018); and author of numerous articles on Chaucer, fifteenth-century poetry, and literary value. He was an editor of JEGP and a trustee of the New Chaucer Society and is a recipient of the Medieval Academy Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Meyer-Lee Robert J.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 02.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032225777
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3222577-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Reading Literature Today
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, Popular Culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Chaucer, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Humanities, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval