'Let the Chaf be Still: Exemplary Fictions in Late Medieval England

Author / Editor
Allen, Elizabeth Gage.

Title
'Let the Chaf be Still: Exemplary Fictions in Late Medieval England

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 1699A.

Description
Examines how late-medieval changes in audience and breadth of subject transformed responses to exemplary literature, exploring "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry," Caxton's translation of it, and works of Gower, Chaucer (PhyT, PardT,and TC), and Henryson, plus Chaucerian apocrypha.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Physician and His Tale.
Pardoner and His Tale.
Troilus and Criseyde.