{"product_id":"9780472130443-living-in-the-future","title":"Living in the Future","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooks beneath Chaucer’s vision of a British past to discover a deeply politicized fantasy of England’s national identity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality. \u003ci\u003eLiving in the Future\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes how the anachronistic nationalist fantasies in Geoffrey Chaucer’s \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e create a false sense of England’s historical continuity that in turn legitimized contemporary political ambitions. This book spells out the legacy of the \u003ci\u003eTales\u003c\/i\u003e that still resonates throughout English literature, exploring the idea of England in the medieval literary imagination as well as critiquing more recent centuries’ conceptions of Chaucer’s nationalism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chaucer uses two extant national ideals, sovereignty and domesticity, to introduce the concept of an English nation into the contemporary popular imagination and reinvent an idealized England as a hallowed homeland. For nationalist thinkers, sovereignty governs communities with linguistic, historical, cultural, and religious affinities. Chaucerian sovereignty appears primarily in romantic and household contexts that function as microcosms of the nation, reflecting a pseudo-familial love between sovereign and subjects and relying on a sense of shared ownership and judgment. This notion also has deep affinities with popular and political theories flourishing throughout Europe. Chaucer’s internationalism, matched with his artistic use of the vernacular and skillful distortions of both time and space, frames a discrete sovereign English nation within its diverse interconnected world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As it opens up significant new points of resonance between postcolonial theories and medieval ideas of nationhood, \u003ci\u003eLiving in the Future\u003c\/i\u003e marks an important contribution to medieval literary studies. It will be essential for scholars of Middle English literature, literary history, literary political and postcolonial theory, and literary transnationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55815788626294,"sku":"9780472130443","price":89.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41669521_2b84f3d3-dcca-4528-862c-a39afc479089.jpg?v=1781800366","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780472130443-living-in-the-future","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}