The Pub in Literature: England's Altered State
- Author / Editor
- Earnshaw, Steven.
The Pub in Literature: England's Altered State
- Published
- Manchester and New York : Manchester University Press, 2000.
- Physical Description
- x, 294 pp.
- Description
- Explores drinking establishments (inns, taverns, alehouses, pubs) in English literature for how they have helped to constitute what is thought to be particularly English, starting with CT and Langland's "Piers Plowman" and ending with Martin Amis's "London Fields" (1990). Chaucer and Langland establish the two poles of conviviality and caution against drunkenness that recur throughout English literary history, later complicated by issues of class, gender, nostalgia, and stereotyping.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.