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Book SynopsisReading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those worksâ deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day. Each chapter connects Chaucerâs world with particular problems of our own, such as autocratic patriarchal social orders and geopolitical religious/racial conflict. Introducing modern critical approaches to those problems â gender studies and postcolonial theory, for example â each chapter provides in-depth discussion of how Chaucer explores their nature, implications, and consequences by way of his distinctive literary idiom. Texts covered include the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales and the tales told by the Knight, Miller, Man of Law, Wife of Bath, Pardoner, and Prioress; and the House of Fame, Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde. Each chapter is self-contained
