Chaucer's American Accent
- Author / Editor
- Matthews, David.
Chaucer's American Accent
- Published
- American Literary History 22 (2010): 758-72.
- Description
- Matthews considers ways of distinguishing between "medieval studies" and "medievalism" (relating the latter to "antimodernism") and assesses how late nineteenth-century American study of Chaucer "problematizes" the terms. The article contrasts American and British involvement in the Chaucer Society and comments on how the recent "turn to affect" in Chaucer studies parallels earlier treatments of the poet. See Bruce Michelson's "A Response to David Matthews."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.