'For Thorgh Yow Is My Name Lorn': Does Dido Accuse Virgil and Aeneas in the House of Fame?

Author / Editor
Hamaguchi, Keiko.

Title
'For Thorgh Yow Is My Name Lorn': Does Dido Accuse Virgil and Aeneas in the House of Fame?

Published
Doshisha Literature 46: 1-17, 2003.

Description
Postcolonial analysis of the Dido account in LGW reveals that when Dido accuses Aeneas of ruining her reputation, Chaucer simultaneously accuses Virgil of "epistemic imperialism," a function of the "unreliability of representation." Hamaguchi compares Chaucer's Dido with Bertha Mason of Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea."

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.