Chaucer and the Absent City
- Author / Editor
- Wallace, David.
Chaucer and the Absent City
- Published
- Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 59-90.
- Description
- Contrasts Chaucer's depiction of London's social tensions in CT with Boccaccio's depiction of Florence's unity in Decameron 6.2, Pampinea's story of Cisti. The duplicities and deceptions of CkT and CYT (at odds with the Host's governance) are like accounts from London's Letter Books in their lack of a unified, coherent urban consciousness.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Cook and His Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.