Literature and Class: From the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution.
- Author / Editor
- Hadfield, Andrew.
Literature and Class: From the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution.
- Published
- Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 331 pp.
- Description
- Analyzes the relationship between conceptions of social class and literary representations of them in Britain from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. Chapter 2, "Perceptions of Class in the Late Middle Ages," addresses William Langland's "Piers Plowman," John Gower’s "Vox Clamantis, and CT, focusing on estates satire and social reality in MilT and RvT and arguing that "Chaucer attributes social disarray to no single class but to a collective whole."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale