CHAUCER'S JOBS Near Fine with no dust jacket

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

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Year of publication

2004

ISBN

1403966257

Author

Carlson, David R.

Publishers

Palgrave Macmillan

Keyword

Arts & Literature Literature & Fiction Criticism & Theory, History & Criticism Poetry Medieval British Chaucer Literary, Criticism

Cover description

Near Fine with no dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 1403966257

Description

Minor Shelfwear; The New Middle Ages; 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.5 Inches; 176 pages; 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 by turns flatters his aristocratic betters and deals out discipline to malcontent others. Carlson contends that it was this social and political quality of Chaucer's writings, rathen than artistic merit, that made him the "Father of English Poetry."