"Hyt am I": Voicing Selves in the "Book of the Duchess," the "Roman de la rose," and the "Fonteinne Amoureuse."

Author / Editor
Knox, Philip.

Title
"Hyt am I": Voicing Selves in the "Book of the Duchess," the "Roman de la rose," and the "Fonteinne Amoureuse."

Published
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 135-56.

Description
Shows how the "relationship between voice and identity" is a preoccupation of both BD and one of its chief sources, Machaut's "Dit de la fonteinne amoureuse." Highlights the formative influence of the composite "Roman de la Rose"--particularly its conjuring of an authorial "je"--on "the powers and the limitations of the voice" in the later narratives.

Alternative Title
Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations