Victorian Illustrations to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Fisher, Judith L., and Mark Allen.

Title
Victorian Illustrations to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Published
William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003), pp. 233-73.

Description
The authors explore two kinds of Victorian medievalism (antiquarian detail and moral didacticism) in visual tradition, surveying Victorian depictions of CT in painting and book illustration and focusing on various illustrations of ClT. Includes a descriptive catalog of illustrations to CT, 1809-96.

Contributor
Allen, Mark.

Alternative Title
Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Clerk and His Tale.