England
- Author / Editor
- Lavezzo, Kathy.
England
- Published
- Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 47-64.
- Description
- Traces recent critical engagement with the "problem" of late medieval English national identity in Chaucer, especially as it reflects anxieties about political upheaval, linguistic variety, cultural "hybridity," and English geographical isolation. Lavezzo draws together comments on the Auchinleck Book, "Sir Orfeo," Higden's "Polychronicon," and several of the tales in CT, especially Th, which, she argues, obliquely engages concerns of nation presented directly in Guy of Warwick.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Language and Word Studies
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Tale of Sir Thopas