Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602
- Author / Editor
- Prendergast, Thomas A.,and Barbara Kline,eds.
Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602
- Published
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1999.
- Physical Description
- [vii], 301 pp.
- Description
- Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction (by Prendergast) on the relations between Chaucer's "original" texts and later adaptations of these texts. The book explores the cultural conditions that produced the adaptations, as well as the impact the adaptations have had on modern critical attitudes toward Chaucer and authenticity in general. For eleven essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Rewriting Chaucer under Alternative Title.
- Contributor
- Kline, Barbara,ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.