A Response to David Matthews

Author / Editor
Michelson, Bruce.

Title
A Response to David Matthews

Published
American Literary History 22 (2010): 773-80.

Description
Explores the intensity of America's involvement in the Chaucer Society discussed by Matthews in "Chaucer's American Accent," focusing on the rise of British national tourism and the Gothic Revival, as well as on American romantic notions of Chaucerian pastoralism and democracy.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.