Literacy, Translation and Vernacular Authorship from Alfred to Chaucer

Author / Editor
Nugent, Christopher Gerard.

Title
Literacy, Translation and Vernacular Authorship from Alfred to Chaucer

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1124A, 1999.

Description
The sense of individual authorship and the acceptance of English as a literary language were eventually accomplished by Chaucer, who, though he sometimes assumed authority through his guise of translator, became the model for subsequent English authors.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.