Chaucer at Large - The Poet in the Modern Imagination

Offered as part of the sexcentenary commemoration of Chaucer's death, this very readable study examines Chaucer's impact on the academic and non-academic worlds of the 19th and 20th centuries. Chronological chapters assess Chaucer's impact on the Pre-Raphaelites, on W B Yeats, on Edwardian children's stories and on post-World War One authors.

About the author

Steve Ellis is professor of English literature at the University of Birmingham, England.

Summary

Offered as part of the sexcentenary commemoration of Chaucer's death, this very readable study examines Chaucer's impact on the academic and non-academic worlds of the 19th and 20th centuries. Chronological chapters assess Chaucer's impact on the Pre-Raphaelites, on W B Yeats, on Edwardian children's stories and on post-World War One authors.

Product details

• Authors: Ellis, Steve Ellis, Steven G. Ellis
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2000
• EAN: 9780816633760
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-3376-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 430 g
• Series: Medieval Cultures S.; Medieval Cultures; Medieval Cultures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies