'The Human Face Divine': Identity and the Portrait from Locke to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Patterson, Annabel.
'The Human Face Divine': Identity and the Portrait from Locke to Chaucer
- Published
- Sally McKee, ed. Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999) pp. 155-87.
- Description
- Assesses the Chaucer portraits in the Ellesmere manuscript and in Hoccleve's Regement of Princes as evidence in the study of the development of individual identity. Considers literary portraits of John Locke, John Milton, John Donne, and Chaucer, suggesting that the threshold between "modernity and premodernity" may not be as clear as sometimes thought. 13 b&w figs.
- Alternative Title
- Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.