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(2017) Chaucer and the child, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Not unlike the Ages of Man theories he inherits, Chaucer's concept of the child is complex and variable as he exploits the play space between youth and maturity. However age is constructed, whether by chronology, physiology, legal precedent, or by social and cultural expectations, age matters in Chaucer's work. By foregrounding the child and children, by recognizing the poet's childlikeness, his excursions into imaginary spaces beyond the material world, we can see something more nuanced about childhood and the child. Children have been brought out of the shadows of obscurity in this study. We need only to recognize them as actively engaged individuals with voices of their own.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-43637-5_7
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Salisbury, E. (2017). An afterword, in Chaucer and the child, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 225-236.
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