Godwin's 'Life of Chaucer': Making Virtue of Necessity
- Author / Editor
- Yatzeck, Elena.
Godwin's 'Life of Chaucer': Making Virtue of Necessity
- Published
- Charles Lamb Bulletin 84 (1993): 126-35.
- Description
- Yatzeck reads Godwin's "Life of Chaucer" as an extension of Godwin's social philosophy, which combines necessity and human perfectibility. Godwin reconstructs Chaucer's life and makes generalizations about medieval life to encourage readers to recognize the process of social formulation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life.