Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
- Author / Editor
- Wallace, David.
Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
- Published
- Malden, Mass., and Oxford : Blackwell, 2004.
- Physical Description
- x, 342 pp. ; 30 b&w illus.
- Description
- Wallace contemplates and reconstructs historical understanding of several locations, using visual and verbal texts to recapture perspectives of medieval and early modern witnesses or visitors.
- Explores Calais as an English outpost and Flanders as its neighbor, drawing upon Th, ShT, and PardT, as well as works by Deschamps, Hakluyt, and others. Also considers the early modern reception of Dante at Wells in Somerset, medieval slave trade in Genoa, Italian humanist imagining of the Canary Isles as the classical Fortunate Isles, and the letters of Héoise and Abélard and the works of Aphra Behn in the colonial representation of Surinam.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas.
- Shipman and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.