Chaucerian Authority and Inheritance
- Author / Editor
- Spearing, A. C.
Chaucerian Authority and Inheritance
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Literature in Fourteenth-Century England (Tubingen: Gunter Narr; Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 185-202.
- Description
- Explores relations between literary inheritance and father-child relations in Chaucer's works. Chaucer's "unfavourable attitude toward the power of the father" is reflected in his plots and his attitudes toward his literary ancestry. Of Chaucer's descendants, Skelton, Henryson, and Douglas inherited "skeptical independence" from Chaucer.
- Alternative Title
- Literature in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.