Chaucer and the Child.
- Author / Editor
- Salisbury, Eve.
Chaucer and the Child.
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 279 pp.; 1 b&w illus.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Description
- Seeks to complicate--even replace--the figure of Father Chaucer with Child Chaucer, examining children in Chaucer's works, along with figures of childishness, playfulness, and childlikeness, exploring the poet's uses of and resistance to traditional categories and expectations of age in order to disclose the agency of children and their productive vitality. Considers motifs of speech, speechlessness, original sin, education, nascent erotic desire, and the "queer temporality" of wise children and childish adults in Chaucer's corpus, addressing an extensive variety of works, and attending to major and minor characters, allusions, literary relations, the portrait of Chaucer in MS Bodley 686, the "tumultuous age-conscious sociopolitical milieu" of Richard II, and medieval and modern notions of childhood.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Life
Manuscripts and Textual Studies