Introduction: An Idea of Fourtenth-Century Literature
- Author / Editor
- Boitani, Piero.
Introduction: An Idea of Fourtenth-Century Literature
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Literature in Fourteenth-Century England (Tubingen: Gunter Narr; Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 11-31.
- Description
- Reads HF as an index to English literary culture of the late fourteenth century--as Chaucer's "idea of fourteenth-century literature." The variety of genres of the work, its complex relations with literary traditions, its concerns with science and mysticism, its mythography, and its sheer expansiveness indicate the mentality of Chaucer and his literary culture.
- Alternative Title
- Literature in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.