Congenial souls : reading Chaucer from medieval to postmodern / Stephanie Trigg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trigg, Stephanie.

Series:

Medieval cultures ; v. 30.

Medieval cultures ; v. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Appreciation--Great Britain.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Authors and readers--Great Britain--History.

Authors and readers.

Criticism--Great Britain--History.

Criticism.

Middle Ages in literature.

Canon (Literature).

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2002]

Summary:

Congenial Souls surveys the critical literature from the late Middle Ages to the contemporary period to show how editors and critics constructed various voices as a response -- even a supplement -- to Chaucer's work. Concentrating on turning points in the history of this discourse and in the creation of a special Chaucerian community, Trigg arrives at the fraught notion of a critical community in our day. What, she asks, do feminist studies or cultural studies portend for such an author-based literary communion? And if Chaucer is the original "dead white male" author, what will happen to Chaucer studies and medieval studies in the new millennium? The moment is propitious, Trigg suggests, for Chaucerians to investigate their own critical history and its inherent contradictions. Richly informed, her work establishes a strong basis for such an examination.

Contents:

Introduction: The Congenial Souls of Chaucer and His Readers xiii

1. Speaking for Chaucer: Canon and Community 1

2. Signing Geoffrey Chaucer: Models of Authorship 40

3. Writing Chaucer: The Fifteenth Century 74

4. Loving Chaucer in the Privacy of Print: The Sixteenth Century 109

5. Translating Chaucer for Modernity: John Dryden 144

6. Reading Chaucer outside the Academy: Furnivall, Woolf, and Chesterton 157

7. Reforming the Chaucerian Community: The Late Twentieth Century 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-271) and index.

ISBN:

0816638225

0816638233

OCLC:

46729427