Father Chaucer: Generating Authority in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Seal, Samantha Katz.
Father Chaucer: Generating Authority in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Physical Description
- xi, 272 pp.
- Description
- Examines the role of paternal authority and the figure of the father and their use and depiction in CT. Interrogates the construction of "Father Chaucer" to show how widespread this motif of paternal authority is in discussions of Chaucer and his poetry, and how potentially unstable it remains.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General