Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis James Child, and Mid-Victorian Chaucer

2019/01/01 by Joseph Phelan · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Socioeconomics of Resources and Conservation #Indigenous Studies and Ecology #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics

paper · doi:10.1353/sel.2019.0037

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Abstract

This article examines the understanding of Chaucer's language and metre developed in the correspondence between Clough and the Harvard Professor Francis James Child, and places it in the context of changing Anglo-American literary and cultural relations during the mid-nineteenth century.

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