'My Love for Chaucer': F. J. Furnivall and Homosociality in the Chaucer Society
- Author / Editor
- Ward, Antonia.
'My Love for Chaucer': F. J. Furnivall and Homosociality in the Chaucer Society
- Published
- Studies in Medievalism 09 (1997): 44-57.
- Description
- Argues that the impulse behind Furnivall's Chaucer scholarship was homosocial, a desire to become as close to Chaucer as possible and to share his love of the poet with other men as a way of bringing them closer together. This homosocial element has been a recurrent feature of medieval English Studies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.