Autobiographical Selves in the Poetry of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate.
- Author / Editor
- Matthews, David.
Autobiographical Selves in the Poetry of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate.
- Published
- Adam Smyth, ed. A History of English Autobiography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 27-40.
- Description
- Surveys the "presentation of self" in late medieval English literature, gauging the relative degree of "truth value" and describing how authors "entwine life-writing into their larger projects." Uses Ret and Chaucer's ironic "playful portrayal of himself" elsewhere as touchstones for discussion of self-portrayals by writers such as the Harley lyricist and Adam Davy, as well as Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate.
- Contributor
- Smyth, Adam, ed.
- Alternative Title
- A History of English Autobiography
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Retraction