Chaucer and the Child [electronic resource] /
Salisbury, Eve.author.
This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer’s literary children—from infant to adolescent—offer a means by which to hear the voices of youth not prominently treated in social history. The readings in this study urge our attention to literary children, encouraging us to think more thoroughly about the Chaucerian collection from their perspectives. Eve Salisbury argues that the child is neither missing in the late Middle Ages nor in Chaucer’s work, but is,rather, fundamental to the institutions of the time and central to the poet’s concerns.
Introduction -- Chapter One: Child Chaucer and the Play of Imagination -- Chapter Two: Infantasy and the Silent Child -- Chapter Three: Pueritia: Boys and Girls -- Chapter Four: Adolescentia: “For Youth and Elde is Often at Debaat” -- Chapter Five: Troubling Stages of Life: Child-Woman, Child-Man -- Chapter Six: An Afterword.
This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer’s literary children—from infant to adolescent—offer a means by which to hear the voices of youth not prominently treated in social history. The readings in this study urge our attention to literary children, encouraging us to think more thoroughly about the Chaucerian collection from their perspectives. Eve Salisbury argues that the child is neither missing in the late Middle Ages nor in Chaucer’s work, but is,rather, fundamental to the institutions of the time and central to the poet’s concerns.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Literature, Medieval.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Classical literature.
Medieval Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Classical and Antique Literature.