Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
- The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Note on the Text
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Form of the Canterbury Tales
- 2 Manuscripts, Scribes, Circulation
- 3 The General Prologue
- 4 The Knight’s Tale and the Estrangements of Form
- 5 The Miller’s Tale and the Art of Solaas
- 6 The Man of Law’s Tale
- 7 The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
- 8 The Friar’s Tale and TheSummoner’s Tale in Word and Deed
- 9 Griselda and the Problem of the Human in The Clerk’s Tale
- 10 The Franklin’s Symptomatic Sursanure
- 11 The Pardoner and His Tale
- 12 The Prioress’s Tale
- 13 The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- 14 Moral Chaucer
- 15 Chaucer’s Sense of an Ending
- 16 Postscript: How to Talk about Chaucer with Your Friends and Colleagues
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
- The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Note on the Text
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Form of the Canterbury Tales
- 2 Manuscripts, Scribes, Circulation
- 3 The General Prologue
- 4 The Knight’s Tale and the Estrangements of Form
- 5 The Miller’s Tale and the Art of Solaas
- 6 The Man of Law’s Tale
- 7 The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
- 8 The Friar’s Tale and TheSummoner’s Tale in Word and Deed
- 9 Griselda and the Problem of the Human in The Clerk’s Tale
- 10 The Franklin’s Symptomatic Sursanure
- 11 The Pardoner and His Tale
- 12 The Prioress’s Tale
- 13 The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- 14 Moral Chaucer
- 15 Chaucer’s Sense of an Ending
- 16 Postscript: How to Talk about Chaucer with Your Friends and Colleagues
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
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- The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales , pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020