Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales: A Short Introduction
- Author / Editor
- Hirsh, John C.
Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales: A Short Introduction
- Published
- Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
- Physical Description
- x, 175 pp.; 7 b&w illus.
- Series
- Blackwell Introductions to Literature
- Description
- Introduces students to Chaucer's life (opening chapter), comments on critical approaches to Chaucer, and presents several groups of recurring topics in CT: gender, religion, race, and class; love, sex, and marriage; God and spirituality; adaptations of dream-vision literature in CT; and representations of fate and death. The volume includes a selected bibliography and brief indexes of subjects and critics' names. A separate chapter includes plot summaries of each of the Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales-General.
- Chaucer's Life.