Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A history of Critical Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies 1792-1948
Publisher: Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney / Brepols: Turnhout
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Turnhout
Description: An exploration of the ways in which the history of Chaucer reception mirrors cultural and political developments in Germany and in German academia from the revolutionary and liberal Chaucer of the 'Vormärz' (i.e. pre-March 1848) period to the ideological utilization of Chaucer during the Third Reich and German Chaucer criticism after 1945.