The Modernity of Modern Chaucer Criticism
- Author / Editor
- Dragstra, H. H.
The Modernity of Modern Chaucer Criticism
- Published
- G. H. V. Bunt, E. S. Kooper, et al., eds. One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), pp. 187-97.
- Description
- In their use of the term "modern," modern Chaucer scholars agree on three aspects: modern critical, scientific method;modern literary aesthetics; and the artistic personality of Chaucer himself as seen through modern eyes. Though D. W. Roberson, William Crawford, Larry D. Benson, and others place the beginning of serious critical review at about 1951, some see George Lyman Kittredge as the first representative of modern Chaucer criticism.
- Alternative Title
- One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.