Inventing German(ic) Chaucer: Ideology and Philology in German Anglistics Before 1945
- Author / Editor
- Utz, Richard J.
Inventing German(ic) Chaucer: Ideology and Philology in German Anglistics Before 1945
- Published
- Studies in Medievalism 8 (1996): 5-26
- Description
- Uses Will Heraucort's "Die Werwelt Chaucer" (1939) as the focal point for examining the interplay between philology and ideology in German Chaucer studies between 1848 and 1945. Germanic elements were exaggerated, and French influence was downplayed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.