Other Families: Dryden’s Theory of Congeniality in Dante, Chaucer, and Naylor.
- Author / Editor
- Vernon, Matthew X.
Other Families: Dryden’s Theory of Congeniality in Dante, Chaucer, and Naylor.
- Published
- Matthew X. Vernon. The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 203-45
- Description
- Explores ways that John Dryden’s notions of congeniality and the value of the vernacular in his commentary on Chaucer help to clarify Gloria Naylor’s adaptations of Dante’s "Inferno" in "Linden Hills" and of CT in "Bailey’s Café, "identifying in the two novels thematic and formal concerns with vernacularity, voice, community, subversion, and relations between "codified and unruly forms of literary production."
- Alternative Title
- The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General