Cathy Hume

Chaucer and the Cultures of Love and Marriage (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Substantial new readings of Chaucer's poems, offering a fresh perspective on some of the major controversies in Chaucer scholarship.

Chaucer's preoccupation with love and marriage has been a focus of criticism for more than a century. Here, the love relationships and marriages in six of the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Legend of Good Women are reappraised from a fresh direction, using late medieval letter collections and advice literature for women to shed new light on the competing cultures of love and marriage that troubled both Chaucer himself and hiscontemporaries. Beginning with a concise summary of the history of marriage in fourteenth-century England, and making use of recent research in social history, the volume goes on to analyse letter collections and advice books inorder to reconstruct late medieval ideology and practice. Among other elements, the author discusses the flirtatiousness of court culture, the anti-love discourse of advice literature, courtship conventions, rival models of marriage among the bourgeoisie and aristocracy, and the pathos of arranged marriages.

Dr Cathy Hume is currently a visiting scholar at Northwestern University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782040354
• Artikelnr.: 56998588

Autorenporträt

CATHY HUME is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Marriage and love in late medieval England 'The name of
soveraynetee': The Franklin's Tale 'Humble servant to youre worthynesse':
the Clerk's Tale Domestic opportunities: The social comedy of the
Shipman's Tale Love in confinement in the Merchant's Tale The Man of Law's
Tale: The medieval marriage market and human suffering The Knight's Tale
and Emily's marriage: Chain of love or prison fetters? 'Nyce fare': The
courtly culture of love in Troilus and Criseyde Beyond the bounds of good
behaviour: Imprudent fidelity in the Legend of Good Women Conclusion
Bibliography