Old 'Stories' and New Trojans: The Gendered Construction of English Historical Identity
- Author / Editor
- Federico, Sylvia.
Old 'Stories' and New Trojans: The Gendered Construction of English Historical Identity
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3125A.
- Description
- Examines fictional representations of Troy as England's mythic ancestor in TC, HF, Gower's Vox Clamantis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and other works. Since Troy was thought to have led to later empires only through its fall, the city is an ambivalent ideal, providing authors with a fantasy space, which they interpreted and adapted to their goals.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- House of Fame.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.