Geoffrey the Unbarbarous: Chaucerian 'Genius' and Eighteenth-Century Antimedievalism
- Author / Editor
- Wright, Glenn.
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.