Politics and Chaucer's Poetry

Author / Editor
Knight, Stephen.

Title
Politics and Chaucer's Poetry

Published
Stephen Knight and Michael Wilding, eds. The Radical Reader (Sydney: Wild and Wooley, 1977), pp. 169-92.

Description
A Marxist approach to form, structure, and character shows broad dichotomies in Chaucer's art; e.g., between city and country, Gothic and modernist narratives, and worldy and otherworldly philosophies. From the last divergence derives the major ideological dialectic in Chaucer between medieval Christian idealism and bourgeois "materialist humanism."

Contributor
Wilding, Michael,ed.

Alternative Title
The Radical Reader.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.