Books by S. H. Rigby

Surveying and assessing competing critical approaches to chaucer's work, this text emphasizes a need to see Chaucer in historical context; the context of the social and political concerns of his own day.

An exploration of Marx's claims about social structure and historical change, which discusses their use and validity. The author argues that Marxism proves most useful when it is seen as a source of questions, concepts and hypotheses rather than as a philosophy of historical development.

The paperback release of this classic work.