Chaucer and the Elizabethan Invention of 'Self'

Author / Editor
Fowler, Elizabeth.

Title
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.