Chaucer as Catholic Child in Nineteenth-Century English Reception.

Author / Editor
Lynch, Andrew.

Title
Chaucer as Catholic Child in Nineteenth-Century English Reception.

Published
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 172-87.

Description
Focuses on nineteenth-century critical attention to Chaucer as childlike, simple, or fresh for the ways that it contributed to later inattention to Chaucer as a religious poet, particularly inattention to Chaucer as an English Catholic poet. Examines commentary on Chaucer by Wordsworth, R. W. Horne, E. B. Browning, Ruskin, Arnold, Adolphus Ward, and more for the ways they align or separate "young" Chaucer and "old" Catholicism.

Alternative Title
Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion