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Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity
Robert R. Edwards
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Description for Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity
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In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provide sources and models for portraying the classical past and medieval modernity. In so doing, Edwards provides us with a valuable way of assessing Chaucer's analysis of late medieval culture.
In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provide sources and models for portraying the classical past and medieval modernity. In so doing, Edwards provides us with a valuable way of assessing Chaucer's analysis of late medieval culture.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333970089
SKU
V9780333970089
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99-15
About Robert R. Edwards
ROBERT R. EDWARDS is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of books on Chaucer, medieval drama, medieval literary theory, and the Italian poet Guido Guinizelli. He has edited the works of John Lydgate and essay collections on love, desire, and sexuality in the Middle Ages.
Reviews for Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity
'Edwards's attentive and accomplished study will surely engage students and scholars.' - C.S. Cox, Choice