'A New Maid Channoun'? Redefining the Canonical in Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature

Author / Editor
Lyall, Roderick J.

Title
'A New Maid Channoun'? Redefining the Canonical in Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature

Published
Studies in Scottish Literature 26 (1991): 1-18.

Description
A historical survey of Scottish literary canons reveals three distinct systems of canonicity. Of particular interest is the effect of Chaucer on the canonicity of the New Chaucerians.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.