At Home and in the "Counter-Hous": Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings.
- Author / Editor
- Hsy, Jonathan
At Home and in the "Counter-Hous": Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings.
- Published
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 43-62. "This chapter also appears in a modified and expanded form in Jonathan Hsy, Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2013), 27–57," where the title is "Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings: Home and the Customs House."
- Description
- Examines the way connections of polyglot London and England trace how "London's polyglot character informs Chaucer's fictive portrayal of urban living" in HF and ShT. Connects Chaucer’s work at the customs house and his house in Aldgate with HF and highlights the "shared urban contexts" by mapping out the complex linguistic interplay in HF and ShT.
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of. Chaucer
Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings: Home and the Customs House.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life
Language and Word Studies
House of Fame
Shipman and His Tale