Framing the Father : Chaucer and Virginia Woolf

Author / Editor
Ellis, Steve.

Title
Framing the Father : Chaucer and Virginia Woolf

Published
New Medieval Literatures 7 (2005): 35-52

Description
Virginia Woolf's discussions of Chaucer have "the effect of cutting him down to size." This effect reflects her reaction to High Modernist affection for the Middle Ages and her "subversive and anti-canonical approach to literary history."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.