Chaucer's Uncommon Voice : Some Contexts for Influence

Author / Editor
Taylor, Karla.

Title
Chaucer's Uncommon Voice : Some Contexts for Influence

Published
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 47-82.

Description
Italian vernacular literature (rather than French court culture) inspired Chaucer to develop his authorial voice. FranT is a reading of Decameron 10.5 that illustrates the development of Chaucer's distinctly English agenda.

Alternative Title
Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question .

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Franklin and His Tale.