Modern Antiques: The Material Past in England 1660-1780

Author / Editor
Kalter, Barrett.

Title
Modern Antiques: The Material Past in England 1660-1780

Published
Lanham, Md.: Bucknell University Press, 2012.

Physical Description
viii, 251 pp.

Description
Examines how the long eighteenth century reflected "the emergence of a modern historical consciousness." Chapter 2, "Chaucer Ancient and Modern: Standardization, Modernization, and the Eighteenth-Century Reception of The Canterbury Tales," pp. 69-108, focuses on how political, literary, and social factors affected the standardization and modernization of CT during the eighteenth century.

Alternative Title
"Chaucer Ancient and Modern: Standardization, Modernization, and the Eighteenth-Century Reception of The Canterbury Tales."

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Canterbury Tales--General