Feminizing Aureation in Lydgate's "Life of Our Lady" and "Life of Saint Margaret."

Author / Editor
Walling, Amanda.

Title
Feminizing Aureation in Lydgate's "Life of Our Lady" and "Life of Saint Margaret."

Published
Neophilologus 101 (2017): 321-36.

Description
Argues that in "Life of Our Lady" and "Life of Saint Margaret" John Lydgate uses the "paradoxical image" of the virginal and fecund "sanctified female body" to distance himself "from the patriarchal Chaucerian poetic model" and assert that his "decorative poetic style" is not "merely ornamental" but is "integral to his poetic matter."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion