The Underworld of Chaucer's House of Fame: Virgil, Claudian, and Dante

Author / Editor
Kerr, John.

Title
The Underworld of Chaucer's House of Fame: Virgil, Claudian, and Dante

Published
Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest, eds. Medieval and Renaissance Humanism: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reform (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003), 185-202.

Description
In HF, Chaucer poses "epistemological instability" as a condition of the sublunar realm, which he characterizes as hellish through associations with Proserpina in her triple manifestation, references to Claudian, and allusions to Virgil and Dante.

Contributor
Gersh, Stephen, ed.
Roest, Bert, ed.

Alternative Title
Medieval and Renaissance Humanism: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reform.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.