The Politics of the Canon: Christine de Pizan and the Fifteenth-Century Chaucerians
- Author / Editor
- Finke, Laurie A.
The Politics of the Canon: Christine de Pizan and the Fifteenth-Century Chaucerians
- Published
- Exemplaria 19 (2007): 16-38.
- Description
- In the fifteenth century, Chaucer was admired chiefly as the founder of English eloquence, betraying English anxiety about French influences. The patronage networks that promoted Chaucer as a literary icon also promoted translations of the works of Pizan. Appropriation of her work through literary circles, centered on men such as Thomas Hoccleve, John of Bedford, Sir John Fastolf, Stephen Scrope, Anthony Woodville, and William Caxton, serves "as a metonymy for what was specifically English about English literature."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.