Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences.

Author / Editor
Cawsey, Kathy, ed.

Title
Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences.

Published
Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2011.

Physical Description
vii, 185 pp.

Description
Six previously published essays by individual authors, an introduction, and a conclusion look at how Chaucer addresses audiences and how contemporary audiences interpret Chaucer's works. Describes the "audience function" and traces the "effect of differing ideas of audience about Chaucer's audience on Chaucerian scholarship." Essays focus on CT (especially ClT), BD, LGW, TC, and HF.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism