{"product_id":"reading-geoffrey-chaucer-9781032225777","title":"Reading Geoffrey Chaucer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and the tales told by the Knight, Miller, Man of Law, Wife of Bath, Pardoner, and Prioress; and the \u003ci\u003eHouse of Fame\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLegend of Good Women\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/i\u003e. Each chapter is self-contained\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018911449431,"sku":"9781032225777","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032225777.jpg?v=1750778629","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-geoffrey-chaucer-9781032225777","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}