Feminizing Aureation in Lydgate's "Life of Our Lady" and "Life of Saint Margaret."
- Author / Editor
- Walling, Amanda.
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