John Foxe's Chaucer: Affecting Form in Post-Historicist Criticism.
- Author / Editor
- Crocker, Holly A.
John Foxe's Chaucer: Affecting Form in Post-Historicist Criticism.
- Published
- New Medieval Literatures 15 (2015, for 2013): 149-82.
- Description
- Argues that John Foxe's chronological techniques, "expressive affinities," and "affective connections" in "Actes and Monuments" (a.k.a. the "Book of Martyrs") are "relevant to what is increasingly called 'post-historicist' criticism in medieval literary studies." Focuses on Foxe's "historical dislocation" in his "use" of a Wycliffite, "reformist Chaucer" when discussing "sixteenth-century erudition" rather than that of the fourteenth.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion