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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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.