Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance
By: edited by Theresa M. Krier.
Contributors: Krier, Theresa M., 1953-
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Influence.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Knowledge -- Literature.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Appreciation -- England.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- 16th century.; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- 17th century.; Medievalism -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Medievalism -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Middle Ages in literature.; Renaissance -- England.; Canon (Literature)
Description: This collection of essays surveys the diverse receptions and workings of Chaucer from the early sixteenth to the early seventeenth century.

It emphasizes the many kinds of influence that Chaucer and his poems exerted on British letters and culture during these years and assesses how "Chaucer" - poet, works, and representations by others - became a cultural category that changed in Tudor and early Jacobean England, as the Reformation and increasing distance from Middle English made Chaucer representative of a lost medieval past.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-231) and index.