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Chaucer Steve Ellis (Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham)

Chaucer By Steve Ellis (Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham)

Summary

A guide to Chaucer's work and the history of its reception available. This book comprises 37 specially commissioned chapters by a team of contemporary Chaucer scholars and combines general essays offering background and contextual information with detailed readings of specific Chaucerian texts.

Chaucer Summary

Chaucer: An Oxford Guide by Steve Ellis (Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham)

This book is the most comprehensive guide to Chaucer's work and the history of its reception available. It comprises 37 specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding team of contemporary Chaucer scholars and combines general essays offering background and contextual information with detailed readings of specific Chaucerian texts. The volume is divided into five parts - 'Historical Contexts', 'Literary Contexts', 'Readings', 'Afterlife' and 'Study Resources'. Each chaper includes a Guide to Further Reading and there is a Chronology at the end of the volume. The Guide is accompanied by a companion web site which includes four additional contributions for teachers and lecturers on teaching and learning issues related to Chaucer.

About Steve Ellis (Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham)

Steve Ellis is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on medieval and modern literature. Publications on Chaucer include: Geoffrey Chaucer, Writers and their Work (1996), Chaucer: the 'Canterbury Tales', (Longman Critical Readers, 1998) and Chaucer At Large: the Poet in the Modern Imagination (2000).

Table of Contents

PART I; HISTORICAL CONTEXTS; PART 2; LITERARY CONTEXTS; PART 3; READINGS; PART 4; AFTERLIFE; PART 5; STUDY RESOURCES

Additional information

GOR003511736
9780199259120
0199259127
Chaucer: An Oxford Guide by Steve Ellis (Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
2005-03-01
672
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