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The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

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Availability:In StockContributor:Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Editor), James Simpson (Editor)Series:Oxford HandbooksPublish date:2023-10-30Pages:688
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780198890560ISBN-10:198890567UPC:9780198890560Book Category:Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:Medieval, Poetry, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.20 x 7.30 x 2.20 inchesWeight:2.6015Product ID:SC0E59MXYD
As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects with contemporary ways of seeing the world, and the place of the subject who lives in it. This Handbook comprises a series of essays by established scholars and emerging voices that address Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion.

The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780198890560ISBN-10:198890567UPC:9780198890560Book Category:Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:Medieval, Poetry, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.20 x 7.30 x 2.20 inchesWeight:2.6015Product ID:SC0E59MXYD
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Professor of English and Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, James Simpson, Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor English, Harvard University

Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, and was educated at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. She has written books on optics and allegory (Seeing Through the Veil) and European views of Islam and the Orient (Idols in the East), and edited collections on travel literature (Marco Polo), Mediterranean Studies (A Sea of Languages), and somatic histories (The Ends of the Body).

James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. He was formerly Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books are Reform and Cultural Revolution, being volume 2 in the Oxford English Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2002); Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (Harvard University Press, 2007), and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Editor), James Simpson (Editor)

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