Coda: Godwin’s Portrait of Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Dane, Joseph A.
Coda: Godwin’s Portrait of Chaucer.
- Published
- Joseph A. Dane. Mythodologies: Methods in Medieval Studies, Chaucer, and Book History ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2018), pp. 105-10.
- Description
- Comments on anachronisms in the portrait of Chaucer included in William Godwin’s Life of Chaucer (1803) and on the reception of the portrait and the biography, suggesting that the portrait is "more sincere" than other Chaucerian anachronisms and that such sincerity is "precisely what stands between us and the history we seek."
- Alternative Title
- Mythodologies: Methods in Medieval Studies, Chaucer, and Book History.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's LIfe