Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales by Cooper, Helen

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198821427)

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Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales by Cooper, Helen

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

$105.00
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales by Cooper, Helen

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
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Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide provide tale-by-tale information on textual variations and sources, together with a readable commentary on thematic issues, structure, style, generic affiliations, and the contribution of each tale to the work as a whole. It concludes with a survey of the many imitations of the tales down to the early seventeenth century. This new edition also takes account of the latest scholarship, theory, and criticism and new interpretations of the tales, including such matters as gender identity, consent, and racial and religious difference.

The book is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. It combines the comprehensive coverage of a reference book with the clarity and coherence of a critical account. Since its first publication in 1989, the Guide has established itself as an indispensable aid for any reader looking to develop their understanding of The Canterbury Tales.

Author: Helen Cooper
ISBN-10: 0198821425
ISBN-13: 9780198821427
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2023
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.40w x 2.20d
By Helen Cooper
By Helen Cooper
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Helen Cooper, Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English, University of Cambridge

Helen Cooper is Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. After a Research Fellowship at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, she was appointed to a tutorial fellowship at University College, Oxford, in medieval and early modern English in 1978, as their first woman fellow (and was later made an Honorary Fellow). She then moved to the Chair in Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge in 2004, at Magdalene College (Emeritus Professor and Life Fellow from 2014). She was a co-editor of Medium ﾆvum 1989-2002 and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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