Chaucer's "House of Fame" and Its Boccaccian Intertexts: Image, Vision, and the Vernacular.

Author / Editor
McKinley, Kathryn.

Title
Chaucer's "House of Fame" and Its Boccaccian Intertexts: Image, Vision, and the Vernacular.

Published
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016.

Physical Description
vii, 228 pp.

Description
Analyzes Boccaccio's impact on Chaucer in HF. Presents literary history of Boccaccio's "Amorosa vision" and descriptions of Chaucer's trips to Italy, and claims that "Chaucer tries out an array of Boccaccian approaches to Dantean questions and problems" in HF.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations