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In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity, and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Robert Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provides sources and models for portraying the classic past and medieval modernity. In so doing, Edwards provides us with a valuable way of assessing Chaucer's analysis of late medieval culture.
'Edwards's attentive and accomplished study will surely engage students and scholars.' - C.S. Cox, Choice
| A Note on Texts and Abbreviations | p. ix |
| Preface | p. x |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 'Dayes olde': the shape of antiquity | p. 1 |
| 'Now-a-dayes': Chaucerian modernity | p. 5 |
| Chaucer and Boccaccio | p. 10 |
| 'The strif of Thebes': Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer | p. 17 |
| The Statian emblem and Dante's three poetic subjects | p. 18 |
| Boccaccio's Prelude | p. 23 |
| Chaucerian revision | p. 31 |
| The Twin Necessity of Troilus and Criseyde | p. 44 |
| Historical determinism and historical alternatives | p. 45 |
| Erotic determinism | p. 55 |
| Escaping desire | p. 62 |
| The 'confusioun of gentil wemen': Antiquity and the Short Side of History | p. 75 |
| Alternatives to empire: two African queens | p. 77 |
| Courtly culture and 'foul delyt' | p. 85 |
| 'Hire frendes alle': the patriarchal family and the political order | p. 94 |
| Coda: Christian antiquity | p. 102 |
| The 'Cherles Tale' and Chaucerian Modernity | p. 104 |
| 'Harlotrie' and the poetics of exchange | p. 107 |
| 'Curious bisynesse' | p. 116 |
| The Pardoner's 'moral tale' | p. 124 |
| 'The sclaundre of Walter': The Clerk's Tale and the Problem of Hermeneutics | p. 128 |
| 'Pia historia Griseidis' | p. 130 |
| Gualtieri's 'matta bestialita' | p. 135 |
| Boccaccian multiplicity and Petrarchan closure | p. 141 |
| Rewriting Menedon's Story: Decameron 10.5 and the Franklin's Tale | p. 153 |
| Sources and intertexts | p. 154 |
| Menedon's story | p. 156 |
| Reimagining the social sphere | p. 158 |
| Threat, desire, and compact | p. 161 |
| Deferral and the counterfactual | p. 162 |
| The crisis of literalism | p. 165 |
| New resolutions | p. 169 |
| Notes | p. 173 |
| Index | p. 200 |
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ISBN: 9780333970089
ISBN-10: 033397008X
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 205
Published: 17th December 2001
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.23 x 14.61
x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.45
Edition Number: 1
