Chaucer and the Social Contest

Peggy Knapp

Paperback (12 Apr 1990)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This lively and accessible account offers us a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales. Knapp places the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. She then shows how the dominant ideologies of the time were increasingly inadequate as an account of social life.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780415901512
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	12 Apr 1990
DEWEY:	821.1
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	160
Weight:	270g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	19mm