Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature
- Author / Editor
- Hacht, Anne Marie, and Dwayne D. Hayes, eds.
Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature
- Published
- Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2009.
- Physical Description
- 4 volumes; xc, 1746 pp.
- Description
- This encyclopedia of world authors describes how the works of individual authors "fits with the context of the author's life, historical events, and the literary world"; it includes a comprehensive index, printed in each of the four volumes. The entry on Chaucer (1:358-61) summarizes his literary, linguistic, and social contexts, attending especially to CT and its pilgrimage frame. Also addresses his relations with historical fiction that depicts his age, with other stories about pilgrimage, and with political events and literary works of time.
- Contributor
- Hayes, Dwayne D., ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Canterbury Tales--General