Immature Pleasures: Affective Reading in Margery Kempe, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Modern Fan Communities.

Author / Editor
Wilson, Anna Patricia.

Title
Immature Pleasures: Affective Reading in Margery Kempe, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Modern Fan Communities.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.07 (2015): n.p.

Description
Considers how the three titular authors equate excessive emotional response and similar qualities to texts with immaturity. Reads ClPT as Chaucer's reaction to Petrarch on the vernacular.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations