"Gaufred, Deere, Maister Soverain": Chaucer and Rhetoric.

Author / Editor
Simpson, James.

Title
"Gaufred, Deere, Maister Soverain": Chaucer and Rhetoric.

Published
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 126-43.

Description
Focuses on Chaucer's rhetoric and presents a chapter targeted at students, with an "aim to persuade the student of the richness and literary fertility of Chaucer's rhetorical culture." Offers background of contemporary scholarship on Chaucer and rhetoric, before tracing Chaucer's own rhetorical background.

Alternative Title
Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Background and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations