The Oxford Chaucer: Volumes 1 and 2

The Oxford Chaucer: Volumes 1 and 2

$354.00

Brief Description: This edition presents the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer to a new generation of students and scholars. It provides all that undergraduates and graduate students will need to understand and appreciate Chaucer in...

Add to WishlistCompare

paypalvisamasteramerican expressdiscoverdiners club
Description

Brief Description:
This edition presents the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer to a new generation of students and scholars. It provides all that undergraduates and graduate students will need to understand and appreciate Chaucer in his original Middle English, as well as an extensive scholarly apparatus.

Table of Contents:
Volume 1IntroductionThe Canterbury TalesFurther AbbreviationsWorks CitedExplanatory NotesTextual Notes Volume 2The Romaunt of the RoseThe Book of the DuchessThe House of FameAnelida and ArciteThe Parlement of FoulesBoeceTroilus and CriseydeThe Legends of Good WomenLyricsA Treatise on the AstrolabeExplanatory NotesTextual Notes

Biographical Note:
Christopher Cannon, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Johns Hopkins University, James Simpson, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Harvard University

Christopher Cannon is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics at Johns Hopkins University. He was educated at Harvard and has taught previously at UCLA, Oxford (as a Fellow of St Edmund Hall), Cambridge (as a Fellow of Girton College), and New York University. He works primarily on writings in Middle English from 1100-1500 and, in particular, on the emergence of 'English literature' as a meaningful category in this period.

James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University (2004-). He was educated in the universities of Melbourne and Oxford. Previously Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge (1999-2003), he is a Life Fellow of Fellow of Girton College and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He works across the broad period from 1200-1700 at the intersections of literary, theological, and political writing.