Caroline Spurgeon and Her Relationship to Chaucer. The Text of Her Viva Presentation at the Sorbonne

Author / Editor
Dor, Juliette.

Title
Caroline Spurgeon and Her Relationship to Chaucer. The Text of Her Viva Presentation at the Sorbonne

Published
Thea Summerfield and Keith Busby, eds. People and Texts: Relationships in Medieval Literature. Studies Presented to Erik Kooper (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007), pp. 87-98.

Description
Comments on archival records of Chaucer scholar Caroline Spurgeon, seeking information about Spurgeon's reasons for studying the reception of Chaucer in France and England. Dor transcribes and translates into English the French text of Spurgeon's viva (defense) for her doctorate at the University of Paris.

Alternative Title
People and Texts: Relationships in Medieval Literature. Studies Presented to Erik Kooper.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.