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portada Eighteenth-Century Modernizations From the Canterbury Tales
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
1991
Language
English
Pages
283
Format
Hardcover
Weight
1.20
ISBN13
9780859913096
Edition No.
1
Categories

Eighteenth-Century Modernizations From the Canterbury Tales

Betsy Bowden (Author) · D.S.Brewer · Hardcover

Eighteenth-Century Modernizations From the Canterbury Tales - Betsy Bowden

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Synopsis "Eighteenth-Century Modernizations From the Canterbury Tales "

This collection of 32 modernised versions of The Canterbury Tales which appeared in the 18th century offers basic material for studying the history of attitudes to Chaucer, and Chaucer scholarship, duringthe period. Reception data so precise and extensive is available only for Chaucer among English authors. At least seventeen known and anonymous writers produced thirty-two modernised Canterbury tales during the century, plus tale links and adaptations of each other's work. The present collection contains only modernisations that have not seen print since 1796, thus excluding those by Pope and Dryden. Although most works in this collection may be examined further in several British and American libraries, others cannot. Apparently only one copy has survived of an anonymous Miller's Tale (1791) with a thoughtful preface justifying the tale's overt sexuality published just as William Lipscomb was completing his 1795 edition that, in its preface, justifies exclusion from the pilgrimage of the notorious tales of Miller and Reeve. Such contrasting attitudes illustrate the dangers of generalisation about the usual reception or interpretation of Chaucer during this or any other socio-historic period; instead, the collection provides an untapped reservoir of material with which to investigate anew the rich complexity of his poetry and its enduring appeal. BETSY BOWDEN is Professor of English at Rutgers University,New Jersey.

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