Chaucer’s "Rude Times."

Published: Joseph A. Dane. Mythodologies: Methods in Medieval Studies, Chaucer, and Book History.([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2018), pp. 53-78.

Description: Outlines the "critical myth" that Chaucer, despite his assumed or constructed urbanity, lived in an age that was less sophisticated than the critic's own. Interrogates the history of this myth, exploring progressivist and devolutionary biases in individual studies, and arguing that biases and questionable assumptions underlie the selectivity and arrangement of the information in Caroline Spurgeon’s "Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion" and in its index, compiled by Arundell Esdaile.

Alternative Title: Mythodologies: Methods in Medieval Studies, Chaucer, and Book History.

Chaucer Subjects: Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Life
Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference