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American Chaucers

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  • © 2007

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  1. Candace Barrington
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Popular Audiences, America, and Chaucer

    • Candace Barrington
    Pages 1-16

  3. In the Parlor with Esq. Geoffrey Chaucer

    • Candace Barrington
    Pages 17-41

  4. Sir Geoffrey, Percy Mackaye, and Civic Art

    • Candace Barrington
    Pages 43-92

  5. Flying with the Poet

    • Candace Barrington
    Pages 93-116

  6. Geoffrey and the American Flapper

    • Candace Barrington
    Pages 117-142

  7. Fightin’ and Rockin’ with Geoff

    • Candace Barrington
    Pages 143-153

  8. Postscript: Choosing Chaucers

    • Candace Barrington
    Pages 155-162

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 163-224
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About this book

This study provides extensive readings of overlooked American reconstructions of Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales from the colonial to postmodern periods, demonstrating how these repackagings convey uniquely American ideas.

Reviews

"A pioneering, meticulously-researched account of Chaucer's absorptions into mainstream American culture: one that tells a quite different story from that of his popular fortunes in England. The robust confidence with which Chaucer is adapted to American risk-taking and entrepreneurial strategies, and the importance of cross-gendering women in staging Chaucerian performances, makes for fascinating reading. An important book that helps both gauge and bridge the distance between professorial Chaucer and cultures outside the American classroom: recommended." - David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania; President, New Chaucer Society, 2004-6"Candace Barrington's American Chaucers...offers a substantial contribution to the series in which it appears and the study of Chaucerian reception. It demonstrates the great benefits of its transdisciplinarity by engaging texts that have hitherto been ignored." - The Medieval Review

About the author

CANDACE BARRINGTON is Associate Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: American Chaucers

  • Authors: Candace Barrington

  • Series Title: The New Middle Ages

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10748-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6515-8Published: 10 August 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-10748-0Published: 30 April 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2945-5936

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 224

  • Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Literature, Literary History

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