Chaucerian Afterlives: Reception and Eschatology

Author / Editor
Gilbert, Gaelen.

Title
Chaucerian Afterlives: Reception and Eschatology

Published
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 43-57.

Description
Claims that "Chaucer is eschatological" with a recurrent focus on "death, judgment, hell, and heaven," but that he also anticipates in Ret how readers might associate Chaucer the author with Chaucer's texts, thus encouraging "a dynamic of textual dispossession."

Alternative Title
Dark Chaucer: An Assortment.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Retraction