Chaucer and Free Love
- Author / Editor
- Ganim, John M.
Chaucer and Free Love
- 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. 344-65.
- Description
- Explores the reception of Chaucer by William Morris (the Kelmscott Chaucer) and Virginia Woolf ("The Pastons and Chaucer"), arguing that the responses of both individuals are deeply autobiographical and indications of how "modernity privatizes the premodern."
- Woolf's essay is a "dry run" for "Orlando and its imagining of a subversive past," while Morris's edition (especially in Burne-Jones's illustrations) combines innocence and fatalism in ways that reflect Morris's troubled marriage.
- Alternative Title
- Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.