Hoccleve's Take on Chaucer and Christine de Pizan: Gender, Authorship, and Intertextuality in the 'Epistre au dieu d'Amours,' the 'Letter of Cupid,' and the 'Series'

Author / Editor
Stavsky, Jonathan.

Title
Hoccleve's Take on Chaucer and Christine de Pizan: Gender, Authorship, and Intertextuality in the 'Epistre au dieu d'Amours,' the 'Letter of Cupid,' and the 'Series'

Published
Philological Quarterly 93 (2014): 435-60.

Description
Emphasizes Chaucer's influences on Hoccleve, paying special attention to ClT as an intertext with Hoccleve's "Letter," where Hoccleve appears rather misogynist. Yet, in the "Series," harkening back to his "Letter," Hoccleve seems to ridicule his earlier misogyny.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Clerk and His Tale