San Antonio College Library

The farther away from us in time or even space an author is, the more need there is to find out about how people round him live & think. This is why the author has given what may at first sight appear a disproportionate amount of space to preliminary matter.

An overview of Chaucer's work, focusing on the most canonical texts, such as Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, while also providing some analysis of his minor works.

"Soon after their nation's independence, Americans began remaking Chaucer into their own image. In the 1800s, publishers included bowdlerized Chaucers in parlor-room anthologies to exploit middle-class desires to appear well informed. Before WWI, dramatist Percy MacKaye adapted Chaucer to promote progressive ideals. After the war, James Hall deployed his reading of Chaucer to refract his prisoner of war experience. Until the Depression, women and...