Chaucer's French Inheritance
- Author / Editor
- Butterfield, Ardis.
Chaucer's French Inheritance
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, 2d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), pp. 20-36.
- Description
- Butterfield surveys the French literature available to Chaucer and argues that French language and literature pervade Chaucer's entire career. The French influence is a fundamental "habit of mind" that resides in the deep and surface structures of his works.
- Alternative Title
- Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, 2d ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.