Here is the reading for Chaucer for January 30th, Jill Mann's "The General Prologue and Estates Literature," from Lee Patterson, ed, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales:A Casebook, New York: Oxford UP, 23-47. It originally appeared in Mann's Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1973, 1-16, 187-202.
NOTE THE CHANGE TO THE READING DATE
ALSO Read this too. It's pages 3-15 in Peter G. Beidler, ed., Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, New York: Bedford, 1996.
