The Pre-History of Proles, 1380-1800: Chaucer, News Ballads, the English Civil War and Boswell.
- Author / Editor
- Hannis, Grant.
The Pre-History of Proles, 1380-1800: Chaucer, News Ballads, the English Civil War and Boswell.
- Published
- In Sue Joseph and Richard Keeble, eds. Profile Pieces: Journalism and the "Human Interest" Bias (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 17-29.
- Description
- Opens a volume of essays on the journalistic practice of "painting a picture [of a person] in words," including discussion of the depiction of a "cross-section of Chaucer's contemporary English society" in CT--in GP and elsewhere--with particular attention to the "pen portraits" of the Knight, Miller, and Prioress as they reveal "the real-world mores and concerns" of Chaucer's time.
- Contributor
- Joseph, Sue, ed.
Keeble, Richard. ed.
- Alternative Title
- Profile Pieces: Journalism and the "Human Interest" Bias.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Style and Versification
Knight and His Tale
Squire and His Tale
Prioress and His Tale