Chaucer and the Elizabethan Invention of 'Self'
- Author / Editor
- Fowler, Elizabeth.
Chaucer and the Elizabethan Invention of 'Self'
- Published
- Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott, eds. Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry. (New York: Modern Language Association, 2000), pp. 249-55.
- Description
- Several Chaucerian poems--especially the multiple voices and amatory perspectives of CT and the request for patronage in Purse--helped "later writers invent the social person of 'selfe.'" Fowler suggests comparisons for pedagogical purposes.
- Contributor
- Cheney, Patrick, ed.
- Prescott, Anne Lake, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse.
- Canterbury Tales--General.