Chaucer in the Field of Cultural Production : Humanism, Dante, and the House of Fame

Author / Editor
Steinberg, Glenn.

Title
Chaucer in the Field of Cultural Production : Humanism, Dante, and the House of Fame

Published
Chaucer Review 35 (2000): 182-203, 2000.

Description
Assesses Chaucer's sense of poetic tradition in HF, arguing that while following Dante's use of the vernacular, Chaucer eschewed Italian emulation of classical models because he distrusted "classical pretensions to artistic or moral superiority."

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.