Chaucer, Humanism, and Printing: Conditions of Authorship in Fifteenth-Century England
- Author / Editor
- Carlson, David R.
Chaucer, Humanism, and Printing: Conditions of Authorship in Fifteenth-Century England
- Published
- University of Toronto Quarterly 64:2 (1995): 274-88.
- Description
- Inferences about Chaucer's court life and patronage provided literary successors with a model for the profitabliity of writing poetry, which--along with the increase in the number of Italian humanists and the advent of printing--fostered the viability of literary professionalism in fifteenth-century England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.