Chaucer at Large : The Poet in the Modern Imagination
- Author / Editor
- Ellis, Steve.
Chaucer at Large : The Poet in the Modern Imagination
- Published
- Minneapolis and London : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 204 pp.
- Series
- Medieval Cultures, no. 24.
- Description
- Surveys twentieth-century manifestations of Chaucer and his works outside of academe, considering the Kelmscott Chaucer and various other reflections of popular perception: occasional essays, translations, audio and visual reproductions of his life and works, Chaucer in performance, Chaucer in popular novels and children's literature, perceptions of Chaucer's Englishness, etc. Despite his foundational role in English literature, Chaucer has been obscured because his language is difficult, because he has been appropriated by academics and subordinated to Dante, because he lacks overt patriotism, and because his persona invites a patronizing response.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.