Modern Antiques: The Material Past in England 1660-1780
- Author / Editor
- Kalter, Barrett.
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