Overview
- Highlights the importance of childhood and children within Chaucer’s works
- Combines both history and theory to offer a comprehensive approach to a generally unacknowledged but pervasive theme in Chaucer’s works
- Connects to larger discussions about childhood within the late fourteenth century
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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“Salisbury’s book opens up a whole realm of new possibilities for reading both Chaucer and the fourteenth century, and, commendably, encourages us all to see things through the eyes of a child.” (LARISSA TRACY, English Historical Review HER, Vol. 134 (566), February, 2019)
“I tremendously enjoyed reading Salisbury’s Chaucer and the Child. It offers so many fresh insights into the poet and his culture that it was as if I were becoming reacquainted with one of my closest friends. Chaucer and the Child brings children from the shadows of obscurity to address social concerns at the heart of Chaucer’s vision. Salisbury is brilliant in her discussion of major figures and how they mirror the parent/child kinship of their progenitors. From issues of paternity and husbanding or wiving and mothering, to parenting and education, Salisbury takes us through the stages of life, from birthing to senility; some folk never do succeed in growing up.” (Russell A. Peck, University of Rochester, New York USA)
“In this sharp, innovative, and assiduously researched book, Eve Salisbury persuasively argues for the importance of childhood and adolescence in the Middle Ages. Children are, in fact, everywhere in the Chaucerian canon, and this thorough study shows us just how actively the child animates Chaucer’s inventive explorations of politics, religion, kinship, science, and selfhood. This book will generate new ways of understanding Chaucer, the late Middle Ages, and literary history.” (Jamie Taylor , Associate Professor, English Department, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania USA)
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Book Title: Chaucer and the Child
Authors: Eve Salisbury
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43637-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43636-8Published: 11 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43637-5Published: 09 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 279
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medieval Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Classical and Antique Literature