{"product_id":"chaucer-and-the-canterbury-tales-9780631225621","title":"Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis concise and lively survey introduces students with no prior knowledge to Chaucer, and particularly to \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales.\u003c\/i\u003e Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry. Encourages an engaged reading of \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales.\u003c\/i\u003e Introduces students to the historical and religious background needed to understand the contexts in which Chaucer wrote.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEncourages an engaged reading of The Canterbury Tales.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces students to the historical and religious background needed to understand the contexts in which Chaucer wrote.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a lively, useful guide to beginning readers of the \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e. It strikes a good balance between the cultural topics and historical interests that have shaped much contemporary scholarship and the poetic features – character, theme, structure, and linguistic play – that have always attracted Chaucer's readers.\" \u003ci\u003eRobert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Hirsch releases the pleasure, vitality, and complexity of the \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e by familiarizing us with the fascinating otherness of Chaucer's world, and key interpretations by modern scholars. For anyone studying or teaching the \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, this informative and readable book will save much labour, and stimulate much thought.\" \u003ci\u003ePeter Brown, University of Kent at Canterbury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"John Hirsh offers persuasive and vivid evocations of Chaucer's life and times, and his thought world, which provide useful contexts for his writings. An excellent and original introduction.\" \u003ci\u003eCorinne Saunders, Durham University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eChaucer and the Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e includes a great range of accurate information in its few pages; even more important, Hirsh's writing is clear and welcoming and his learning and critical judgments as undogmatic as they are stimulating. [...] Although always sensitive to what a novice reader might need to know, Hirsh is never condescending. [...] Hirsh involves us in the delight of the material and the questions it raises in such a way that we hardly realize how well we are being instructed....\" \u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Illustrations. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho Was Geoffrey Chaucer?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender and Religion, Race and Class.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOthers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVisions of Chaucer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeath.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhich Tale Was That? A Summary of theCanterbury Tales.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Authors, Compilers, Editors, and Translators Referred to in the Select Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403444461911,"sku":"9780631225621","price":32.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631225621.jpg?v=1730483490","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chaucer-and-the-canterbury-tales-9780631225621","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}