Birdsong, Love, and the House of Lancaster: Gower Reforms Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Bahr, Arthur.

Title
Birdsong, Love, and the House of Lancaster: Gower Reforms Chaucer.

Published
In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 165-81.

Description
Traces allusions to BD and PF in Gower's "Cinkante balades" as preserved in the Trentham manuscript. The "intertextual play" and "interpretive challenges" activated by these allusions contribute to Lancastrian legitimization at the same time that they disaggregate the manuscript's "originating intentions" from its "literary effects."

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Subversion of Form.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Bood of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls