Chaucer's body
Subtitle: the anxiety of circulation in the "Canterbury tales"
By: R. Allen Shoaf.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Knowledge -- Medicine; Body, Human, in literature; Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- To 1500; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature; Blood -- Circulation -- History -- To 1500; Tales, Medieval -- History and criticism; Diseases in literature; Anxiety in literature
Description: "Chaucer's Body follows the fortunes of individual bodies in the Canterbury Tales to their surprising, often shocking, involvements in both the humor and the horror of being human. Neither wholly carnal nor wholly spiritual, bodies in Chaucer's poem emerge as sites of resistance to economic, political, social, and sexual forces."--BOOK JACKET.