Shame and Guilt in Chaucer
ISBN: 9781137039521
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan US
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Subjects: Palgrave Literature Collection;

Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke.

ANNE MCTAGGART is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

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