Living in the Future : Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales /

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Nationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality. Living in the Future analyzes how the anachronistic nationalist fantasies in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales create a false sense of England's historical continuity that in t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nakley, Susan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales.
Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Tales, Medieval.
Sovereignty in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Internationalism in literature.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Anglais dans la litterature.
Contes medievaux > Histoire et critique.
Internationalisme dans la litterature.
Nationalisme dans la litterature.
Souverainete dans la litterature.
Tales, Medieval > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Political and critical backgrounds. Chaucerians imagine Chaucer: an introduction
  • Sovereignty limited: the concept in later medieval theory and practice
  • Part I: home and away. At home on the road: belief and nation in the Canterbury tales general prologue and frame narrative
  • At home in exile: national disaster in the Knight's tale
  • Part II: Sovereignty and anachronism. Sovereignty matters: anachronism, Chaucer's Britain, and England's future past
  • "Rowned she a pistel": the household and Chaucer's national values
  • Part III: fear and form. Beyond the pale: Chaucer's other women in English
  • Epilogue: sovereignty on the rocks
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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