Chaucerian conflict

Turner, Marion.

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.


England--Civilization--1066-1485.


Electronic books.

PR1933.S59 / T87 2007eb

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