Chaucer, Gower and the Invention of History.

Author / Editor
Nowlin, Steele.

Title
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