Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-476) and index.
Contents
"Thirled with the poynt of remembraunce" : the Theban writing of Anelida and Arcite -- Troilus and Criseyde and the subject of history --Knight's Tale and the crisis of chivalric identity -- From tragedy to comedy through the Legend of Good Women -- Miller's Tale and the politics of laughter -- Wife of Bath and the triumph of the subject -- Chaucerian commerce : bourgeois ideology and poetic exchange in the Merchant's and Shipman's Tales -- Subject of confession : the Pardoner and the rhetoric of penance.
