Fresh Colors of Rhetoric: John Lydgte and Medieval English Nationhood

Author / Editor
Keller, Wolfram R.

Title
Fresh Colors of Rhetoric: John Lydgte and Medieval English Nationhood

Published
Klaus Stierstorfer, ed. Anglistentag 2007 Mùˆnster: Proceedings (Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008), pp. 385-99.

Description
Examines John Lydgate's sources for his "Troy Book," including HF and TC, arguing that Lydgate re-invents "Britain's Trojan origins," calling into question Lancastrian imperialism and offering a "Chaucerian counter-nationhood," anchored in individual perspective and "masking a full-blown poetics of authorship."

Contributor
Stierstorfer, Klaus, ed.

Alternative Title
Anglistentag 2007 Mùˆnster: Proceedings.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde