Incarnational (Auto)biography

Author / Editor
Warren, Nancy Bradley.

Title
Incarnational (Auto)biography

Published
Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 369-85.

Description
The "transubstantiation" of the word being made flesh underlies the autobiographical impulse in Julian of Norwich's "Showings," Langland's "Piers Plowman," and Chaucer's HF. Warren also comments on Chaucer's Ret as autobiography.

Alternative Title
Middle English (Strohm)

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Chaucer's Retraction.