Oxford in English Literature: The Making, and Undoing, of "The English Athens"
- Author / Editor
- Dougill, John.
Oxford in English Literature: The Making, and Undoing, of "The English Athens"
- Published
- Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
- Physical Description
- xii, 363 pp.
- Description
- Surveys depictions of and reactions to Oxford in English literature, from legends of St. Frideswide to modern fiction and screenplays.
- Treats MilT (pp. 19-26) as "the first Oxford novel"; its wealth of details and Chaucer's sympathetic representation of Oxford clerks reflect the poet's familiarity with the medieval town and university.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Miller and His Tale.