Literature and Complaint in England: 1272-1553
- Author / Editor
- Scase, Wendy.
Literature and Complaint in England: 1272-1553
- Published
- New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xii, 215 pp. 18 b&w illus.
- Description
- Studies the "impact of judicial complaint on the formation of literary practice" in late medieval England, describing the "emergence and development" of the "literature of clamour" and exploring the influence of this literature on the rise of English vernacular writing. Especially in its development within the "ars dictaminis" tradition, complaint literature created a "force-field" that helped shape works by Langland, Gower, Chaucer, Usk, Hoccleve, and others. Considers among Chaucer's works Anel, Buk, For, Sted, Mars, Pity, Purse, Scogan, and Venus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Anelida and Arcite.
- Envoy to Bukton.
- Fortune
- Lak of Stedfastnesse.
- Complaint of Mars.
- Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse.
- Envoy to Scogan.
- Complaint of Venus.