The Protestant Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Georgianna, Linda.
The Protestant Chaucer
- Published
- C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 55-69.
- Description
- Focusing on such critics as Thomas Lounsbury, E. Talbot Donaldson, D. W. Robertson, John Fleming, and Derek Pearsall, Georgianna suggests that twentieth-century scholars, like their sixteenth-century predecessor John Foxe, have constructed a "Protestant Chaucer." Their unexamined assumption is that Chaucer meant his religious tales as a "protest against a controlling, inquisitorial church, or against a credulous, sensual piety."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Religious Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.