Beyond the Question of Who Influenced Whom: The Shaping of the Individualist Consciousness in Eustace Deschamps's 'Miroir de mariage' and Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Kendrick, Laura.

Title
Beyond the Question of Who Influenced Whom: The Shaping of the Individualist Consciousness in Eustace Deschamps's 'Miroir de mariage' and Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 49 (1996): 7-37

Description
Challenges assumptions underlying traditional studies of sources and relative chronology, suggesting that similarities between Deschamps's work and Chaucer's are evidence of late-fourteenth-century literary style and common "mentalites". Compares ways Chucer and Deschamps manimpulate their readers.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.