Title: Medievalism, Multiculturalism, and Chaucer (The New Middle Ages)
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.
Subjects: Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, Multiculturalism in literature, English poetry, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, English language, Foreign elements, Multilingualism, History, English literature, History and criticism, Language, Middle English, Language and languages, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Linguistics, General, Mehrsprachigkeit