Allegories of Learning: Vernacular Authority and Literary Identity in Fourteenth-Century England
- Author / Editor
- Galloway, Andrew.
Allegories of Learning: Vernacular Authority and Literary Identity in Fourteenth-Century England
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1513A.
- Description
- Higden's Latin universal history reflects his critical and individual approach. Trevisa's translation and its continuations further this individuality. The Wife of Bath also reworks authorities in a distinctive way, bending them so that Chaucer's followers "correct" her.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.