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Living in the future : sovereignty and internationalism in the Canterbury Tales /

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]
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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.