Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays
- Author / Editor
- Jost, Jean E.,ed.
Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays
- Published
- New York and London: Garland, 1994.
- Physical Description
- xliv, 477 pp.
- Series
- Garland Studies in Humor, no. 5.
- Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, no. 1504.
- Description
- Nineteen essays by various hands, plus an introduction. Nine of the pieces are previously published works or excerpts by Howard Patch, G. K. Chesterton, Paul G. Ruggiers, Thomas A. Garbaty, Derek Pearsall, Alfred David, Alan T. Gaylord, A. Booker Thro, and John M. Steadman. Jost introduces the volume with an interpretive description of Chaucer's humor and groups the essays as reception, theory, and genre studies; she also contributes a historical survey of responses to Chaucer's comedy. For nine new essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays under Alternative Title.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.