Grieving American Civil War Dead: General Hitchcock's Hermetic Interpretation of Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Barrington, Candace.

Title
Grieving American Civil War Dead: General Hitchcock's Hermetic Interpretation of Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Published
European Journal of English Studies 15 (2011): 143-56.

Description
Discusses General Ethan Allen Hitchcock's 1865 published explication of Chaucer's BD. Argues that this study of Chaucer's dream visions offers new insights into "Chaucer's reception in the nineteenth-century United States."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess