'The Canterbury Tales' in Charles Knight's 'Old England': Conservative Reform in Popular Publishing

Author / Editor
Fisher, Judith L.

Title
'The Canterbury Tales' in Charles Knight's 'Old England': Conservative Reform in Popular Publishing

Published
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 39-40 (1994): 155-77.

Description
Examines the iconography of nineteenth-century engravings of select Canterbury pilgrims published by Knight. The postures, details, and styles in the engravings reflect assumptions about social order, as well as Knight's program of educating his readership.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.