Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer.

Description: Focuses on Hoccleve's engagement "with contemporary religious reform movements and religious debate," arguing that he was interested in the "spiritual health of English society" rather than "earthly fame," and exploring how Hoccleve invented Chaucer as a "poetic 'father' figure who might plausibly be seen as acceptable under the heightened scrutiny of the English church." Includes discussion of the impact of many of Chaucer's works, with attention also to Hoccleve's uses of other poetic predecessors, English and continental.