Chaucer After Retters : The Wartime Origins of English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, John M.
Chaucer After Retters : The Wartime Origins of English Literature
- Published
- Denise N. Baker, ed. Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000), pp. 91-125.
- Description
- Using postcolonial theory, events of the 100 Years' War, and speculations about Chaucer's war experiences, Bowers analyzes Chaucer's literary productions--from his early translations from French through LGW--as a reaction against French literary hegemony.
- Alternative Title
- Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Chaucer's Life.