Literary Value and Social Identity in the "Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Meyer-Lee, Robert.

Title
Literary Value and Social Identity in the "Canterbury Tales."

Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Physical Description
x, 282 pp.

Description
Discusses literary value and the value of continued interest in Chaucer's CT, focusing on parts 4 and 5. Argues that these parts function as a unified group, a framing that offers a new way to read and discover the value of the other CT tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Clerk and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Squire and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale