Constructing Chaucer in the Fifteenth Century: The Inherent Anti-feminism of the Paternal Paradigm

Author / Editor
Knutson, Karla.

Title
Constructing Chaucer in the Fifteenth Century: The Inherent Anti-feminism of the Paternal Paradigm

Published
Bruce E. Brandt and Michael S. Nagy, eds. Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature, April 7-8, 2006 (Brookings, S.Dak.: English Department, South Dakota State University, 2006), pp. 95-106.

Description
Knutson argues that fifteenth-century imitators of Chaucer identified themselves as descendants of Chaucer, whom they constructed as father, to promote a conservative agenda, simultaneously antifeminist, hierarchical, and heteronormative.

Alternative Title
Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature, April 7-8, 2006.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.