Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A History of Critical Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793-1948
- Author / Editor
- Utz, Richard (J.)
Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A History of Critical Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793-1948
- Published
- Turnhout : Brepols, 2002.
- Physical Description
- xxi, 446 pp.
- Series
- Making the Middle Ages, no. 3.
- Description
- Surveys the nineteenth- and twentieth-century development of Chaucer study in Germany and Austria and examines the reception of this study in England and America. German philological practice established a standard that was distrusted after World War I, but it continues to have influence. The book includes a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of German Chaucer criticism between 1793 and 1948.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.