Ars Infamia: The Poetics of Defamation in Early Modern England
- Author / Editor
- Kaplan, M. Lindsay.
Ars Infamia: The Poetics of Defamation in Early Modern England
- Published
- David Lee, ed. Signs of the Early Modern 1: 15th and 16th Centuries. EMF, Studies in Early Modern France, no. 2 (Charlottesville, Va.: Rookwood, 1996), pp. 101-28.
- Description
- Kaplan explores medieval and early modern legal discourse about slander and defamation. Though HF is concerned with the relation between poetry and slander, in Chaucer's time "defamation was not understood as having temporal consequences for the average person." Spenser's "Faerie Queene," however, "participates in the contemporary anxiety over the effects of slander."
- Contributor
- Lee, David, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Signs of the Early Modern 1: 15th and 16th Centuries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.