Chaucer and the City

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Edited by Ardis Butterfield, University College London

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: February 2013
Print publication year:: 2006
Online ISBN:: 9781846154553

Subjects:: Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
Series:: Chaucer Studies

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Literature of the city and the city in literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London poet, defining the modern sense of London as a city in history, steeped in its medieval past. Building on recent work by historians on medieval London, as well as modern urban theory, the essays address the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city. Contributors explore the spatial extent of the city, imaginatively and geographically; the diverse and sometimes violent relationships between communities, and the use of language to identify and speak for communities; the worlds of commerce, the aristocracy, law, and public order. A final section considers the longer history and memory of the medieval city beyond the devastations of the Great Fire and into the Victorian period. Dr ARDIS BUTTERFIELD is Reader in English at University College London. Contributors: ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, MARION TURNER, RUTH EVANS, BARBARA NOLAN, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, DEREK PEARSALL, HELEN COOPER, C. DAVID BENSON, ELLIOT KENDALL, JOHN SCATTERGOOD, PAUL DAVIS, HELEN PHILLIPS.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Dedication
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xi

List of Contributors
pp xii-xii

Abbreviations
pp xiii-xiii

Map
pp xiv-xiv

INTRODUCTION
pp 1-2

1 - Chaucer and the Detritus of the City
pp 3-22

LOCATIONS
pp 23-24

2 - Greater London
pp 25-40

3 - The Production of Space in Chaucer's London
pp 41-56

4 - Chaucer's Poetics of Dwelling in Troilus and Criseyde
pp 57-76

COMMUNITIES
pp 77-78

5 - Chaucer and the Language of London
pp 79-94

6 - The Canterbury Tales and London Club Culture
pp 95-108

7 - London and Southwark Poetic Companies: ‘Si tost c'amis’ and the Canterbury Tales
pp 109-126

INSTITUTIONS
pp 127-128

8 - Literary Contests and London Records in the Canterbury Tales
pp 129-144

9 - The Great Household in the City: The Shipman's Tale
pp 145-161

10 - London and Money: Chaucer's Complaint to his Purse
pp 162-174

AFTERLIVES
pp 175-176

11 - After the Fire: Chaucer and Urban Poetics, 1666–1743
pp 177-192

12 - Chaucer and the Nineteenth-Century City
pp 193-210

Bibliography
pp 211-224

Index
pp 225-232

CHAUCER STUDIES
pp 233-234

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