Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface xi
5. List of Contributors xii
6. Abbreviations xiii
7. Map xiv
8. INTRODUCTION
9. 1 Chaucer and the Detritus of the City 1
10. LOCATIONS
11. 2 Greater London 25
12. 3 The Production of Space in Chaucer’s London 41
13. 4 Chaucer’s Poetics of Dwelling in Troilus and Criseyde 57
14. COMMUNITIES
15. 5 Chaucer and the Language of London 79
16. 6 The Canterbury Tales and London Club Culture 95
17. 7 London and Southwark Poetic Companies: ‘Si tost c’amis’ and the Canterbury Tales 109
18. INSTITUTIONS
19. 8 Literary Contests and London Records in the Canterbury Tales 129
20. 9 The Great Household in the City: The Shipman’s Tale 145
21. 10 London and Money: Chaucer’s Complaint to his Purse 162
22. AFTERLIVES
23. 11 After the Fire: Chaucer and Urban Poetics, 1666–1743 177
24. 12 Chaucer and the Nineteenth-Century City 193
25. Bibliography 211
26. Index 225