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Article: Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern.(Book Review)

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Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern. By STEPHANIE TRIGG. (Medieval Cultures, 30) Minneapolis: University of Minnnesota Press. 2002. xxiv+280pp. 48 [pounds sterling](pbk [pounds sterling]1q). ISBN 0-8166-3822-5(pbk 0-8166-38233).

'. . . I found I had a soul congenial to his, and that I had been conversant in the same Studies', wrote Dryden in the preface to his translation of Chaucer. Stephanie Trigg's exploration of this enduring sense of congeniality, of speaking with as well as of Chaucer, yields an intriguing and provocative book. Trigg traces the gradual construction of 'Chaucer' and 'Chaucerians' by examining, selectively, literary ...

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