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The Squire's Tale
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780806121543 |
Part Twelve In the list of scholarly problems it presents, The Squire’s Tale ranks among the highest in The Canterbury Tales. Being incomplete and coming to a halt on a baffling note-was it in fact evolving into a tale of incest?-the tale has undergone the most remarkable shift in critic acceptance of any of Chaucer’s works. This tale of oriental wonder, with its strong base in magic, excited the admiration of Chaucer’s contemporaries and inspired Spenser’s imitative speculation and Milton’s famous desire that the old poet be summoned up to finish his task. It retained for the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries its Gothic fascination, being ranked with the very best of Chaucer’s work. In the second half of the twentieth century, it has been seen from a number of provocative perspectives. Is it a parody of the long Eastern romance? Is it a satire on the values of an aristocracy whose time is past? Is it a rhetorical joke on Chaucer’s part, extending the character of the young Squire into an earnest and somewhat naïve competition with his father, the Knight? The concerns of contemporary scholarship reveal as much about the critical temper of the time as about the work itself. On its own merits The Squire’s Tale compels our attention as an example of Chaucer’s wide-ranging and sometimes inscrutable genius. It provides us with an exotic literary type not otherwise represented in the Tales. It reverberates, in its discussion of ’gentilesse’ with other such discussions in Chaucer’s poetry; it demonstrates, in its use of the love-vision and the complaint, the experimental ways in which Chaucer handles the conventions of French poetry. Perhaps most fascinating is the range of Chaucer’s mind revealed by the casual uses of the science of his time: its knowledge of meteorology, optics, glass and metal work, astrology, and astronomy. The tale offers yet one more example of Chaucer’s genius at work, speaking to us in a voice that is at once suggestive, provocative, and mystifying as always.
Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The
Author | : Lawana Blackwell |
Publisher | : Bethany House |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0764202685 |
Romance blossoms in this historical tale set in a quaint English village, now with an updated look. Gresham Chronicles book 2.
The Courtship Dance
Author | : Candace Camp |
Publisher | : HQN Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 142686194X |
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The Gates of Life
Author | : Bram Stoker |
Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1513287044 |
The Gates of Life (1905), also published as The Man, is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Written at the height of his career, The Gates of Life helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror’s reputation as a leading writer of the early-twentieth century. Inspired by the archetype of the New Woman—a type of literary character incorporating elements of 19th century feminism—Stoker crafts a novel capable of captivating the reader while critiquing the constraints of class and gender on women and men of the early twentieth century. Following the death of his young wife in childbirth, Squire Stephen Norman promises to raise his daughter as his heir. Naming her Stephen, he encourages her to befriend the local boys and refuses to constrain her in the manner typical for young girls of the time. She grows up alongside Harold, who is taken in by Norman after his father’s death from pneumonia. As the story unfolds, a romance develops between Stephen and Leonard, complicating Norman’s wish for his daughter to marry Harold. Having promised Norman on his deathbed that he would look after Stephen, Harold is heartbroken when she proposes to Leonard, but he refuses to give up hope. As time and distance drive them apart, they will need more than ancient promises and memories of a shared childhood to unite them once again. The Gates of Life is a gripping work of romance by Bram Stoker, the secretive and vastly underrated creator of Dracula, one of history’s greatest villains. >With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Bram Stoker’s The Gates of Life is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.
A Young Squire of the Seventeenth Century: Part 3 (continued), London letters
Author | : John Cordy Jeaffreson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Saint Kitts |
ISBN | : |
Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English Canada
Author | : W. Peter Ward |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 0773507493 |
Argues that freedom to love, court, and marry in nineteenth-century English Canada was constrained by an intricate social, institutional, and familial framework which greatly influenced the behavior of young couples both before and after marriage.