Chaucer and Victorian Medievalism: Culture and Society
- Author / Editor
- Collette, Carolyn P.
Chaucer and Victorian Medievalism: Culture and Society
- Published
- Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 29-30 (1988): 115-25.
- Description
- Surveys commentary on Chaucer in Victorian critical journals, deriving three aspects of the Victorian view of Chaucer: he was a Child-Poet whose simplicity anticipated that of the nineteenth-century lower classes; he was the poet of the "green fields of merry England"; and he was a Poet-Businessman, the quintessential Victorian gentleman.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.