Chaucer Criticism and Its Legacies

Author / Editor
Knapp, Ethan.

Title
Chaucer Criticism and Its Legacies

Published
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 324-56.

Description
Knapp surveys trends in academic critical approaches to Chaucer, focusing on interactions and tensions between philological study and interpretive criticism. Summarizes Chaucer's place in the rise of university curricula and explores landmark New Critical discussions of his realism, irony, and allegory. Closes with comments on the influences of New Historicism, feminism, queer theory, and psychoanalysis.

Alternative Title
The Yale Companion to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.