Inventing German(ic) Chaucer: Ideology and Philology in German Anglistics Before 1945

Author / Editor
Utz, Richard J.

Title
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.