Excavating the Borders of Literary Anglo-Saxonism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Australia

Author / Editor
D'Arcens, Louise, and Chris Jones.

Title
Excavating the Borders of Literary Anglo-Saxonism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Australia

Published
Representations 121.1 (2013): 85-106.

Description
Refers to P.R. Stephenson's deployment of Chaucer as a descriptor for early twentieth-century Australian poetry, noting his assertion of "Chaucerian" as shorthand for "a golden age of national self-confidence in which cosmopolitan sophistication combines with local pride to create a proud, distinctive literature and culture."

Contributor
Jones, Chris.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion