Fame's Penitent: Deconstructive Chaucer among the Lancastrians.

Author / Editor
Galloway, Andrew.

Title
Fame's Penitent: Deconstructive Chaucer among the Lancastrians.

Published
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 103-26.

Description
Argues that fifteenth-century verbal and visual depictions of Chaucer as an "aged penitent" (in Gascoigne, Hoccleve, Gower, Scogan, and the Bedford Hours) reflect the Derridean (and Augustinian) gaps that are evident in Ret and elsewhere in Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer's persistent attention to "textual mediation" evokes "the illusion of presence," or an "absent presence" whereas his followers employ echoes of him and his poetry to evoke a politically charged "secular penance" that has parallels with Lancastrian reforms.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Retraction
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion