Geoffrey the Unbarbarous: Chaucerian 'Genius' and Eighteenth-Century Antimedievalism

Author / Editor
Wright, Glenn.

Title
Geoffrey the Unbarbarous: Chaucerian 'Genius' and Eighteenth-Century Antimedievalism

Published
English Studies 82: 193-202, 2001.

Description
Questions why Chaucer was not more popular with late-eighteenth-century "antiquarians and pseudomedieval dabblers," arguing that Chaucer had already been "co-opted" by earlier Enlightenment culture, "de-coupled" from his age, and valued for his satire rather than for Gothic genius.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.