Rhetoric and Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern England: Lollardy, Plain Speech, and the Question of Literature
- Author / Editor
- Harris, Martha Janet.
Rhetoric and Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern England: Lollardy, Plain Speech, and the Question of Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 4753A
- Description
- Lollard insistence on plain speech brought about a split between plain and literary language that persisted into the sixteenth century. Harris considers the "Pearl" poet and the fifteenth-century reception of Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Chaucer's Influence and later Allusion.