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Chaucer's Poetic Alchemy A Study of Value and its Transformation in The Canterbury Tales
By Sheila Fisher
Copyright 1988
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1988. The economic changes and the growth of commerce in fourteenth century England precipitated both social changes and a preoccupation with material wealth. This book examines Chaucer's treatment of economic and ethical value in The Canterbury Tales within the context of contemporary economic and social change and in relation to the scholastic economic theory that... Read more
Introduction 1. "Al Have I Nat Set Folk In Hir Degree": The Question Of Value in the World of The Canterbury Tales 2. What Women Most Desire: Value and its Determination in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale 3. "'We May Creaunce Whil We Have a Name'": Taking it on Faith in The Shipman's Tale 4. Chaucer and the "'Sligynge Science'": Value and its Alchemical Transformation in The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale. Epilogue: Chaucer's Poetic Alchemy and The Transformation of The Canterbury Tales
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Fisher, Sheila
