The Text, The Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method

Author / Editor
McGann, Jerome J.

Title
The Text, The Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method

Published
New Literary History 12 (1981): 269-88.

Description
William Blake avoided the normal publisher-author relationship. "To know the publishing options taken (and refused) by Chaucer...enables the critic to explain the often less visible, but more fundamental, social engagements which meet in and generate the work in question."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.