Chaucer After Retters : The Wartime Origins of English Literature

Author / Editor
Bowers, John M.

Title
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.