Professionalizing Chaucer : John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert, and the Canterbury Tales as Cultural Capital
- Author / Editor
- Gilles, Sealy, and Sylvia Tomasch.
Professionalizing Chaucer : John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert, and the Canterbury Tales as Cultural Capital
- Published
- Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 364-83.
- Description
- Describes the "scientific humanism" that underlies the scholarship of Manly and Rickert and that prompted them to construct Chaucer as "an ideal bourgeois." Their efforts to establish Chaucer as an originary ideal through a wholly authoritative text failed because of a shift in cultural valuation.
- Contributor
- Tomasch, Sylvia.
- Alternative Title
- Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning .
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.