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9781403965158

American Chaucers

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    9781403965158

  • ISBN10:

    1403965153

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-06-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Soon after their nation's independence, Americans began remaking Chaucer into their own image. In the 1800s, publishers exploited middle-class desires to appear well informed by including bowdlerized Chaucers in parlor-room anthologies. Before WWI, dramatist Percy MacKaye used Chaucer to promote progressive ideals. After the war, James Hall used his reading of Chaucer to refract his prisoner-of-war experience. Until the Depression, women used Chaucer to circumvented educational barriers. Finally, a 2001 film adopted Chaucer to advocate calculated risk-taking, a quintessential American value. All of these popular appropriations have much to tell us about teaching Chaucer.

Author Biography

Candace Barrington is Associate Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University.

Table of Contents

Chaucer Comes to America
Chaucer for the Family: Anthologies and Ideologies
Chaucer for the People: Percy MacKaye and the Poet’s Role in Society
Chaucer for Women: Bringing Geoffrey to Schoolgirls and Midwestern Housewives
Chaucer for Guys: Understanding Risk Management
Postscript: Keeping Chaucer in America Chaucer Comes to America
Chaucer for the Family: Anthologies and Ideologies
Chaucer for the People: Percy MacKaye and the Poet’s Role in Society
Chaucer for Women: Bringing Geoffrey to Schoolgirls and Midwestern Housewives
Chaucer for Guys: Understanding Risk-Management
Postscript: Keeping Chaucer in America
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