Chaucer's Jobs

by David R. Carlson

Book Overview

Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the poet was employed first at domestic personal service and subsequently at policework of various sorts, protecting the established order during a period of massive social upset. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230602436
• ISBN13: 9780230602434
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"