Chaucer at large : the poet in the modern imagination / Steve Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Steve, 1952-

Series:

Medieval cultures ; v. 24.

Medieval cultures ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages in literature.

Medievalism--History.

Medievalism.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Summary:

In this learned, lively, and wide-ranging book, Steve Ellis conducts us on a tour of the appearances that the greatest writer of Middle English has made throughout English-speaking culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Surveying the uses to which Chaucer has been put in modern times, Ellis presents a compelling picture that goes beyond the figure and work of this eminent writer to show us the reach of his imaginative power."An attractively lucid book, highly intelligent, perceptive, wide-ranging, but also modestly written. The story Ellis has to tell is often quite extraordin

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Kelmscott Chaucer; 2. Popular Chaucer; 3. Spoken Chaucer; 4. Children's Chaucer; 5. English Chaucer; 6. Writers' Chaucer; 7. Translated Chaucer; 8. Performance Chaucer; 9. Novel Chaucer; 10. Concluding Chaucer; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5278-3

OCLC:

191935654