The Importance of Importance

Author / Editor
Dane, Joseph A.

Title
The Importance of Importance

Published
Huntington Library Quarterly 56 (1993): 307-17.

Description
Reviews John H. Fisher's "The Importance of Chaucer" (Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994), no. 35); Elaine Tuttle Hansen's "Chaucer and the FIctions of Gender" (Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994), no. 90); and the "Cluster on Chaucer" in Publications of the Modern Language Association 107 (1992): 1139-80. Argues that the works under consideration are implicated in "an attitude of authorial adulation."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.