Literary Values and the Customs House: The Axiological Logic of the 'House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Meyer-Lee, Robert J.

Title
Literary Values and the Customs House: The Axiological Logic of the 'House of Fame'

Published
ChauR 48.04 (2014): 373-94.

Description
Focuses on Chaucer's position as lay controller of customs and argues that HF constitutes an attempt to change the field of literature to benefit--in socioeconomic and aesthetic senses--someone in his "liminal" professional position.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Chaucer's Life