George Eliot's Version of Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess': A Reception of the Knight in Black

Author / Editor
Takano, Hideo.

Title
George Eliot's Version of Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess': A Reception of the Knight in Black

Published
Koichi Kano, ed. Through the Eyes of Chaucer: Essays in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Society for Chaucer Studies (Kawasaki: Asao Press, 2014), pp. 438-44.

Description
Drawing on the fact that George Eliot read BD when she faced the death of her partner, George Henry Lewes, this essay reflects on how Eliot receives the deep sorrow and "pathetic sympathy" of the knight in black in BD. In Japanese

Alternative Title
Through the Eyes of Chaucer: Essays in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Society for Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion