American Chaucers

by Candace Barrington

Soon after their nation's independence, Americans began remaking Chaucer into their own image. In the 1800s, publishers exploited middle-class desires to appear well informed by including bowdlerized Chaucers in parlor-room anthologies. Before WWI, dramatist Percy MacKaye used Chaucer to promote progressive ideals. After the war, James Hall used his reading of Chaucer to refract his prisoner-of-war experience. Until the Depression, women used Chaucer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403965153
• ISBN13: 9781403965158
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"