Chaucer and the city
By: edited by Ardis Butterfield
Contributors: Butterfield, Ardis
Series: Chaucer studies
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer; D.S.Brewer
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Woodbridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400. -- Criticism and interpretation; Literature and society -- England -- London -- History -- To 1500; London (England) -- In literature
Description: Presenting essays exploring Chaucer's identity as a London poet, and the urban context for his writings, this volume addresses the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and the importance of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city.