Chaucer and the Gods
- Author / Editor
- Apstein, Barbara.
Chaucer and the Gods
- Published
- Ph.D . Dissertation City University of New York, 1971. DAI 32.06 (1971): 3240A. Fully accessible via https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/4754/ (accessed April 12, 2026).
- Physical Description
- 280 pp.
- Description
- Summarizes traditions antecedent to Chaucer's uses of classical deities, and asserts that Chaucer's own uses rejuvenate the tradition, arguing that he is less conventional than usually assumed. Treats sources and analogues, BD, HF, PF, TC, LGWP, KnT, MerT, and several fifteenth-century followers of Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Book of the Duchess
- House of Fame
- Parliament of Fowls
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Legend of Good Women
- Knight and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion