'An Elusive Rhythm' : The Great Gatsby Reclaims Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Hermannson, Casie.

Title
'An Elusive Rhythm' : The Great Gatsby Reclaims Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Studies in American Fiction 25: 57-80, 1997.

Description
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby rehabilitates the Chaucerian treatment of the love story of Troilus and Criseyde (TC) and counters the less positive depictions of Henryson and Shakespeare.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.