False Memories: The Dream of Chaucer and Chaucer's Dream in the Medieval Revival
- Author / Editor
- Osberg, Richard H.
False Memories: The Dream of Chaucer and Chaucer's Dream in the Medieval Revival
- Published
- Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010): 204-26.
Defining Neomedievalism(s)
- Description
- Examines the role of two "false memories" of Chaucer's life in the formation of nineteenth-century attitudes toward the poet and his reputation. The spurious incidents--Chaucer's exile and imprisonment and his "retirement" to a park at Woodstock--were repeated in biographical accounts and other popular materials, helping to create a romanticized idea of the poet.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion