Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology : A History of Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1798-1948

Utz (U. of Northern Iowa) provides a detailed study of the critical reception of Chaucer in German literary scholarship. The development of the study of medieval English literature in Germany from the late 18th century through the 1870s is described in initial chapters. Scholarship on Chaucer through the 1930s centers on the work and disagreement a