Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity [Hardcover]

Robert R. Edwards (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 20, 2002 | ISBN-10: 033397008X | ISBN-13: 978-0333970089

In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity, and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Robert Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provides sources and models for portraying the classic past and medieval modernity. In so doing, Edwards provides us with a valuable way of assessing Chaucer's analysis of late medieval culture.

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About the Author

Robert R. Edwards is Distinguished Professor of English and comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 223 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (March 20, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 033397008X
• ISBN-13: 978-0333970089
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,879,072 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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