Langland, Kempe, and Chaucer, and the 'Makynges' of Authority
- Author / Editor
- Plumer, Danielle Cunniff.
Langland, Kempe, and Chaucer, and the 'Makynges' of Authority
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2490A.
- Description
- Fourteenth-century English dialogue between Wycliffite heresy and religious orthodoxy brought a redefinition of authorship and authority.
- Langland and Chaucer developed their own "authorial identities, or bibliographic egos," and sometimes altered their works to avoid being claimed by heretical groups.
- Kempe, writing later, absents herself as author. All represent their works as divinely inspired.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.