Geoffrey Chaucer : The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- George, Jodi-Anne, ed.
Geoffrey Chaucer : The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2000.
- Physical Description
- 183 pp.
- Series
- Columbia Critical Guides.
- Description
- Summary-survey of critical responses to GP. Six chapters focus on particular time periods and the critical emphases that dominated them: (1) 1368-1880, Chaucer's "greatness" and the early editorial tradition; (2) 1892-1949, later editors and responses to Chaucer by English authors; (3) 1950s and 1960s, academic criticism and Chaucer the Pilgrim; (4) 1970s, sociological approaches; (5) 1980s, structuralism and poststructuralism; (6) 1990s, feminism and gender study. Each section comprises a pastiche of lengthy quotations from a variety of critics, with brief commentary by the editor.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.