Chaucerian conflict languages of antagonism in late fourteenth-century London / [electronic resource] :
Marion Turner.
- Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007.
- viii, 213 p.
- Oxford English monographs .
- Oxford English monographs. .
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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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--History--England--To 1500. English literature--Criticism, Textual.--Middle English, 1100-1500 Social history--Medieval, 500-1500. Social conflict in literature. Social structure in literature.