The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400-1450 - Female Audiences, English Manuscripts, French Contexts

First full-length study of what the manuscript contexts can reveal about early reactions to Chaucer, and in particular his treatment of women.

List of contents

Introduction
Chaucer and the French Lyric Tradition
Female Voices, French Frames: MS Gg.4.27
Troilus And Criseyde and the Letter of Cupid: MS Cosin V.ii.13
John Shirley and Chaucer's Anelida: Additional 16165 and Trinity R.3.20
English Female Networks and their Literary Contexts
Failures of Conversation in Tanner 346
Games People Play: Gender and Dialogue in Fairfax 16
Afterword: The Legacy of Female Skepticism
Bibliography

About the author

Kara A. Doyle

Product details

• Authors: Kara A Doyle, Kara A. Doyle
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781843845904
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-590-4
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 603 g
• Series: Chaucer Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies