Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Chaucer and the problem of normativity
- Chapter 1 Naturalism and its discontents in the Miller's Tale
- Chapter 2 Normative longing in the Knight's Tale
- Chapter 3 Agency and dialectic in the Consolation of Philosophy
- Chapter 4 Sadomasochism and utopia in the Roman de la Rose
- Chapter 5 Suffering love in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Chapter 6 Love's promise: the Clerk's Tale and the scandal of the unconditional
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Chaucer and the problem of normativity
- Chapter 1 Naturalism and its discontents in the Miller's Tale
- Chapter 2 Normative longing in the Knight's Tale
- Chapter 3 Agency and dialectic in the Consolation of Philosophy
- Chapter 4 Sadomasochism and utopia in the Roman de la Rose
- Chapter 5 Suffering love in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Chapter 6 Love's promise: the Clerk's Tale and the scandal of the unconditional
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Philosophical ChaucerLove, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005