Chaucer, Gower and the Invention of History.
- Author / Editor
- Nowlin, Steele.
Chaucer, Gower and the Invention of History.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International A79.04 (2018): n.p.
- Description
- Argues that the "creative potential of understanding invention at once as a textual and historical concept . . . receives its fullest treatment in the poetic exchanges of Chaucer and Gower," examining how in MLT and MkT Chaucer undercuts Gower’s efforts to shape history and rejuvenate culture, "destabilizing Gower's model without offering a suitable replacement."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Tale of Melibee
Monk and His Tale