The Shock of the Old? The Unsettling Art of Chaucer's Antique Citations.

Author / Editor
Phillips, Helen.

Title
The Shock of the Old? The Unsettling Art of Chaucer's Antique Citations.

Published
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 177-97.

Description
Studies the rhetorical topos of exemplary lists of famous antique figures in BD, in comparison with contemporary uses of the device. Chaucer's lists are more than simply didactic or conventional, affirming "chivalric and regal identity" and thus participating in "a language of fashionable prince-pleasing art." Includes consideration of LGW and PF.

Alternative Title
Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
Legend of Good Women
Style and Versification