Chaucer among the Victorians.
- Author / Editor
- Utz, Richard.
Chaucer among the Victorians.
- Published
- Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 189-201.
- Description
- Traces the "growing fascination" with Chaucer, his language, and his works in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, linking it with the cultural imagining of Chaucer "as a predecessor to" Victorian "preferred aesthetics, ideologies, and mentalities." Surveys materials from "antiquarians and gentlemen scholars," professional medievalists, and the "strong interest" among the public reflected in adaptations, translations, bowdlerizations, children’s versions, and "Penny Dreadfuls."
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion