Court Politics and the Invention of Literature: The Case of Sir John Clanvowe
- Author / Editor
- Patterson, Lee.
Court Politics and the Invention of Literature: The Case of Sir John Clanvowe
- Published
- David Aers, ed. Culture and History, 1350-1600: Essays on English Communities, Identities, and Writing (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992), pp. 7-41.
- Description
- During the reign of Richard II, love poetry such as Clanvowe's "Book of Cupid" was a means whereby courtiers could interrogate the "power, patronage and lordship" of the fetishized court. Patterson considers Clanvowe's allusions to Chaucer in this light.
- Alternative Title
- Culture and History, 1350-1600: Essays on English Communities, Identities, and Writing.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.