Washington Irving's Mediaeval Renaissance: Chaucer's Influence on Irving's Foundational Project.
- Author / Editor
- Fiehn, Charlotte.
Washington Irving's Mediaeval Renaissance: Chaucer's Influence on Irving's Foundational Project.
- Published
- English Studies 103 (2022): 837-52
- Description
- Argues that Washington Irving was broadly influenced by Chaucer. Focuses on Irving's "Sketch Book" and its narrative personae in particular and, more generally, his attention to Chaucer, medieval literature, and poetic language in his process of constructing a "foundational text for American literature."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion