The French fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare
In assessing the impact of the Norman Conquest on the culture of medieval & early modern England, Deanne Williams contends that not only the French language & literature, but the idea of Frenchness itself, produced England's literary & cultural identity
Print Book, English, 2004
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780521832168, 0521832160
54365406
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Barbarous intimations; 1. Pardon my French; 2. Sympathy for the devil; 3. My fair lady; 4. A fine romance; 5. Roan Barbary; Conclusion. No man's Elizabeth; Notes; Index.