Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in the Canterbury Tales

Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written, this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it.

Author: L. Patterson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/19/2006
Pages: 279
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.41w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781403974815

About the Author
LEE PATTERSON, F. W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale University, USA, is the author of Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature and Chaucer and the Subject of History, awarded the Christian Gauss prize by Phi Beta Kappa. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy, he is the author of numerous essays on medieval literature.