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Author:

Turner, Marion

Title:

Chaucerian conflict : languages of antagonism in late fourteenth-century London / Marion Turner.

Publisher:

Clarendon Press ;

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

viii, 213 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Political and social views.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Criticism and interpretation.
Literature and society--England--History--To 1500.
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--Criticism, Textual.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.--Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.--Canterbury tales.
Social history--Medieval, 500-1500
England--Civilization--1066-1485
Social conflict in literature
Social structure in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-208) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Chaucerian conflict -- Discursive turbulence : slander, the House of fame, and the Mercers' petition -- Urban treason : Troilus and Criseyde and the 'treasonous aldermen' of 1382 -- Idealism and antagonism : Troynovaunt in the late fourteenth century -- Ricardian communities : Thomas Usk's social fantasies -- Conflicted Compaignyes : the Canterbury fellowship and urban associational form --Conflict resolved? : the language of peace and Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee'.

Series:

Oxford English monographs

ISBN:

0199207895 (alk. paper)
9780199207893 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76958715

LCCN:

2006039669

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)