Small World: An Academic Romance.

Author / Editor
Lodge, David.

Title
Small World: An Academic Romance.

Published
New York: Macmillan; London: Secker & Warburg, 1984.

Physical Description
338 pp.

Description
A comic novel that satirizes academic travel and conferencing, particularly in English studies. The “Prologue” opens with a quotation of GP 1-11 in modern translation, replacing pilgrimage with conference-going, followed by a quotation from TC 5.1815-16 in Middle English.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion