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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nakley, Susan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales.
Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Sovereignty in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Internationalism in literature.
Tales, Medieval > History and criticism.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Souveraineté dans la littérature.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
Internationalisme dans la littérature.
Contes médiévaux > Histoire et critique.
Anglais dans la littérature.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Tales, Medieval.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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