"French anamalit termes": The Contradictory Celebrity of Chaucer's Aureation.
- Author / Editor
- Bellis, Joanna.
"French anamalit termes": The Contradictory Celebrity of Chaucer's Aureation.
- Published
- Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 143-63.
- Description
- Describes a change in Chaucer's "linguistic fame" from fifteenth-century praise of his rhetoric and aureate diction to sixteenth-century admiration of his plain speaking: a shift that reflects the early modern "Inkhorn Controversy" and efforts to separate "Englishness" from French. Chaucer was regarded as the "Father of English" by representatives of both groups.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion