{"product_id":"chaucerian-conflict-marion-turner-9780199207893","title":"Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London","description":"\u003cem\u003eChaucerian Conflict\u003c\/em\u003e explores the textual environment of London in the 1380s and 1390s, revealing a language of betrayal, surveillance, slander, treason, rebellion, flawed idealism, and corrupted \u003cem\u003ecompaignyes\u003c\/em\u003e. Taking a strongly interdisciplinary approach, it examines how discourses about social antagonism work across different kinds of texts written at this time, including Chaucer's \u003cem\u003eHouse of Fame\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, and other literary texts such as \u003cem\u003eSt Erkenwald\u003c\/em\u003e, Gower's \u003cem\u003eVox clamantis\u003c\/em\u003e, Usk's \u003cem\u003eTestament of Love\u003c\/em\u003e, and Maidstone's \u003cem\u003eConcordia\u003c\/em\u003e. Many non-literary texts are also discussed, including the \u003cem\u003eMercers' Petition\u003c\/em\u003e, Usk's \u003cem\u003eAppeal\u003c\/em\u003e, the guild returns, judicial letters, de Mezieres's \u003cem\u003eLetter to Richard II\u003c\/em\u003e, and chronicle accounts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese were tumultuous decades in London: some of the conflicts and problems discussed include the Peasants' Revolt, the mayoral rivalries of the 1380s, the Merciless Parliament, slander legislation, and contemporary suspicion of urban associations. While contemporary texts try to hold out hope for the future, or imagine an earlier Golden Age, Chaucer's texts foreground social conflict and antagonism. Though most critics have promoted an idea of Chaucer's texts as essentially socially optimistic and congenial, Marion Turner argues that Chaucer presents a vision of a society that is inevitably divided and destructive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marion Turner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199207895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199207893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clarendon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.61h x 7.97w x 0.73d","brand":"Marion Turner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44159191089407,"sku":"9780199207893","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d494450e-db08-483a-a0df-4a12d9c23673.jpg?v=1689081150","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chaucerian-conflict-marion-turner-9780199207893","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}