Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

Author / Editor
Ackroyd, Peter.

Title
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

Published
London : Chatto & Windus, 2002.

Physical Description
xxii, 516 pp.

Description
Ackroyd discusses Chaucer within the larger context of describing and defining the distinctive qualities of English imagination, focusing on Chaucer's themes of remembrance, science, and truth as part of the process of becoming English. Considers HF, LGW, PF, TC, BD, CT, and RvT. Includes a bibliography and index.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.