Medievalism, multilingualism, and Chaucer / Mary Catherine Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Mary Catherine.

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Foreign elements.

English language.

Multilingualism--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Multilingualism.

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Language.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

History.

English language--Middle English--Foreign elements.

English language--Middle English.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

211 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer examines multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Mary Catherine Davidson traces monolingual habits of inquiry to nineteenth-century attitudes toward French, Which had first influenced popular constructions of medieval English in such historical novels as Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. In re-reading medieval traditions in the origins of English from Geoffrey of Monmouth, this book describes how multilingual practices reflected attitudes toward English in the age of Chaucer.

Contents:

Medievalism and monolingualism

Hengist's tongue: a medieval history of English

Multilingual writing and William Langland

Chaucer's "diversite".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230602977

0230602975

OCLC:

156831914