The 'Book of the Duchess': The Vision of the Artist as a Young Dreamer

Author / Editor
Herzog, Michael B.

Title
The 'Book of the Duchess': The Vision of the Artist as a Young Dreamer

Published
Chaucer Review 22 (1988): 269-81.

Description
The issues raised by the narrative style of BD, particularly in the use of its ambivalent first-person narrator, suggest Chaucer's early interest in an art that maintains a tension between convention and innovation.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.