Other Families: Dryden’s Theory of Congeniality in Dante, Chaucer, and Naylor.

Author / Editor
Vernon, Matthew X.

Title
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