Discourses of Affinity in the Reading Communities of Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Trigg, Stephanie.
Discourses of Affinity in the Reading Communities of Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 270-91.
- Description
- Considers how editors and critics from Caxton to Furnivall assume or pursue identity with Chaucer, imitating what they perceive to be Chaucerian sensibility in an effort to claim understanding of the poet and his works. Adopting the poet's voice and claiming class- and gender-based affinities with him are strategies that claim authenticity for critical stances and efface differences between Chaucer and his readers.
- Alternative Title
- Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.