Professor Miller has provided one of the most comprehensive collections of primary source material available for the study of Chaucer's works. He has... brought together selections from a large number of writers regarded by Chaucer and his contemporaries as authorities in matters ranging from reading to romantic love, chivalric ideals to anti-feminist charges, marriage to human destiny. The selections are drawn from works which Chaucer is known to have used, as well as other works representing significant medieval attitudes toward matters with which he, like many other authors of his day, concerned himself. These include excerpts from de Voragine's 'The Golden Legend', Saint Augustine's 'The City of God', and Boccaccio's 'Filostrato'; also from the Bible, Ovid, Macrobius, Dante, John Gower, and Deschamps, among others. Altogether, these actual texts and ceremonies, with Professor Miller's accompanying notes, help define conventional medieval beliefs and attitudes and provide an excellent introduction to the tradition of literary authority within which Chaucer wrote. In general, the texts are of sufficient length to provide the context within which particular points may appear. A number of the selections appear in English for the first time. Brief head-notes introduce each author and indicate the particular importance of his text. Numerous cross-references have been provided to lead interested students to related materials within this anthology, and, in the annotations, to direct their attention to the literary tradition within which the authors deliberately worked. Designed as a course text for students of Chaucer and medieval literature, this anthology also serves as an excellent scholarly reference.

Through an analysis of the poems Chaucers wordes Unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women, the Man of Law’s Tale,... the Wife of Bath’s Tale and its Prologue, the Clerk’s Tale, and the Pardoner’s Tale, Carolyn Dinshaw offers a provocative argument on medieval sexual constructs and Chaucer’s role in shaping them. Operating under the assumption that people read and write certain ways based upon society’s demands, Dinshaw examines gender identity and the effects of a patriarchal society. The focal point of Dinshaw’s argument is the idea that the literary text can be seen as the female body while any literary activities upon the text are decidedly male. Through a series of six provocative essays, Dinshaw argues that Chaucer was not only aware that gender is a social construction, but that he self-consciously worked to oppose the dominance of masculinity that a patriarchal society places on texts by creating works in which gender identity and hierarchy were more fluid.

Bestselling investigation into the myth and reality of working-class life in contemporary Britain.In modern Britain, the working class has become an... object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain’s Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotyped by one, hate-filled word: chavs.In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from “salt of the earth” to “scum of the earth.” Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, he portrays a far more complex reality. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient figleaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems and to justify widening inequality.Based on a wealth of original research, Chavs is a damning indictment of the media and political establishment and an illuminating, disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain. This updated edition includes a new chapter exploring the causes and consequences of the UK riots in the summer of 2011.

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