Chaucerian conflict [electronic resource] : languages of antagonism in late fourteenth-century London / Marion Turner.
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TextSeries: Oxford English monographsPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: viii, 213 pISBN: - 9780191525933
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Political and social views
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Troilus and Criseyde
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Canterbury tales
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Criticism, Textual
- Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
- Social conflict in literature
- Social structure in literature
- England -- Civilization -- 1066-1485
- 821/.1 22
- PR1933.S59 T87 2007
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-208) and index.
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'.
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