The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare
What was the impact of the Norman Conquest on the culture of medieval and early modern England? Deanne Williams answers this question by contending that not only French language and literature, but the idea of Frenchness itself, produced England’s literary and cultural identity. Examining a variety of English representations of, and responses to, France and ‘the French’ in the work of Chaucer, Caxton, Skelton, Shakespeare and others, this book shows how English literature emerged out of a simultaneous engagement with, and resistance to, the pervasive presence of French language and culture in England that was the legacy of the Norman Conquest…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-521-03738-9
- EAN: 9780521037389
- Produktnummer: 2917676
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 470 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 470
Über den Autor
Deanne Williams is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, York University, Toronto.
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