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American Chaucer - 9781403965158

Un libro in lingua di Candace Barrington edito da Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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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 Chaucer to circumvent educational barriers. Finally, a 2001 film adopted Chaucer to advocate calculated risk-taking, a quintessential American value. Together these popular appropriations tell the tale of Chaucer's pilgrimage from the books of England to the American marketplace.

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