Constructing Chaucer: Author and Autofiction in the Critical Tradition

by G. Gust

Overview

This book examines the scholarly construction of Geoffrey Chaucer in different historical eras, and challenges long-standing assumptions to enhance the theoretical dialogue on Chaucer's historical reception.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403976437
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/16/2009
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

GEOFFERY GUST is Assistant Professor and Faculty Associate Researcher of Medieval Studies at Arizona University, USA.

Table of Contents

Persona and Personalities: Medieval Lineage, Modern Legacy Getting a Life: Biographical Constructions of Chaucer the Man Chaucer Speaks: Memoirs of the Man? Lives of Their Own: The Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Critical (Dis)Approval Claiming the 'Popet': Ethics, Evasion, and the Pilgrim's Progress