A Response to Candace Barrington

Author / Editor
Sponsler, Claire.

Title
A Response to Candace Barrington

Published
American Literary History 22 (2010): 831-37.

Description
Sponsler comments on the "appropriation theory" underlying Candace Barrington's analysis of a Chaucer-themed Mardi Gras pageant of 1914, raising broader questions about the ideology, methodology, and disciplinary implications of "American medievalism." See Barrington, "'Forget what you have learned': The Mistick Krewe's 1914 Mardi Gras Chaucer."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.