The Invention of Goodness: Literary Ethics and Tropological Imagination in Late-Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- McDermott, Ryan John
The Invention of Goodness: Literary Ethics and Tropological Imagination in Late-Medieval England
- Published
- DAI A72.01 (2011): n.p.
- Description
- Includes discussion of Rita Copeland's representation of Chaucer as an author intending to supersede previous texts; where Chaucer would supplant classical texts, Langland is presented as attempting to conserve and extend scriptural/liturgical texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations