Chaucer and Atheism

Author / Editor
Mann, Jill.

Title
Chaucer and Atheism

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 17 (1995): 5-19.

Description
Examines how a twentieth-century atheist can read and respond to Chaucer, suggesting that a form of "dialogism" can mediate between the present and the past and can enable us to recognize that Chaucer is essentially more humanistic than, for example, Dante.

Alternative Title
The Presidential Address. The New Chaucer Society Ninth International Congress, 23-27 July 1994, Trinity College Dublin.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.