Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer

by Mary Catherine Davidson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230602975
• ISBN13: 9780230602977
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"