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Title: Teaches more about the critic than about Chaucer
Review: Chaucer is a wonderful author. More people should read the Canterbury Tales. This book, however, will turn people off Chaucer. It seems to have been written from a 1950s perspective, and so is 50 years out of date. The author seems very pleased with his own ideas, but manages to ignore the wealth of good scholarship that would show his ideas to be outmoded at best, and just plain wrong at worst. This book is written from a privileged white-male perspective, and many readers will be repulsed by the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) sexism and racism that pervades it. Stay away. Read Chaucer himself, instead.
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