Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Censoring Chaucer (Censoring Chaucer: Canonicity and Obscenity in Manuscripts and Print Editions of the Canterbury Tales (c. 1400 - 1831))

The primary objective of this project was to investigate the relationship between Geoffrey Chaucer’s canonical status in English literary history and his obscenity (i.e. his use of sexual and scatological language and content), both of which are most closely associated with...