The National Allegory of the Household: "Domus" and "Lingua" in John Gower's "Vox clamantis" and Geoffrey Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Smith, D. Vance.
The National Allegory of the Household: "Domus" and "Lingua" in John Gower's "Vox clamantis" and Geoffrey Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Published
- C. M. Woolgar, ed. The Elite Household in England, 1100–1550: Proceedings of the 2016 Harlaxton Symposium (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2018), pp. 110-28.
- Description
- Unpacks allegorical aspects of "domus" (household, community, regulation, tradition, order) and "lingua" (speech, noise, murmuring, poetry, vernacularity) in Gower's "Vox clamantis" and in HF, using Fredric Jameson's notion of "national allegory" to explore complex relations between private and public levels of meaning, and clarifying Ovidian models that underlie the two poems. Also comments on the dynamics of household and language in NPT.
- Contributor
- Woolgar, C. M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Elite Household in England, 1100–1550: Proceedings of the 2016 Harlaxton Symposium.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Nun's Priest and His Tale