Political Chaucer: The Deployment of the Chaucer Canon, 1390-1990

Author / Editor
Potter, Russell Alan.

Title
Political Chaucer: The Deployment of the Chaucer Canon, 1390-1990

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 3276A.

Description
Chaucer's works have been treated variously through the centuries: vernacular text teaching a diverse audience in debates over "Englishing" the Bible; both model and subject for translation to the Neoclassics; basis for study in the nineteenth century; and subject for numerous types of criticism since.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.