Chaucer in the Field of Cultural Production : Humanism, Dante, and the House of Fame
- Author / Editor
- Steinberg, Glenn.
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.