Medievalism, Multiculturalism, and Chaucer (The New Middle Ages)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 19, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230602977
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Description: "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 how multilingual practices reflected attitudes toward English in the age of Chaucer."--Jacket.