Constructing Chaucer in the Fifteenth Century: The Inherent Anti-feminism of the Paternal Paradigm
- Author / Editor
- Knutson, Karla.
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.