Chaucer: An Introduction
- Author / Editor
- Hussey, S. S.
Chaucer: An Introduction
- Published
- London: Methuen, 1971; 2nd ed. 1982.
- Physical Description
- 244 pp.
- Description
- Introduces Chaucer's life and works to the modern reader, summarizing the plots of individual works and explaining medieval practices and details that underlie them, and attending to their relative chronology, sources, innovations, genres, and aesthetic highlights. Includes discussion of Chaucer's major narrative poems, CT most extensively, and concludes with a chapter on the relations between Chaucer's poetry and that of his contemporaries, particularly John Gower and William Langland.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Chaucer's Life
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations