Invention and Authorship in Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
Invention and Authorship in Medieval England.
- Published
- Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017.
- Physical Description
- xxxiii, 230 pp.
- Series
- Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture.
- Description
- Investigates the rhetorical and creative potentials of the idea of authorship as it developed in medieval English literature and established the basis of authorial "prestige and power" for future literary tradition. Individual chapters assess works by Bede, Walter Map, Marie de France, John Gower, Chaucer, John Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, and the "Afterlife of Medieval Authorship." Confronts Chaucer's "sustained engagement with the questions and problems of authorship" (p. 105) and his devices of disavowal throughout his corpus, exploring how he "creates through imitation" (p. 110), and assessing how other writers used him in developing a rhetoric of English authorial self-awareness and canon formation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion